Development and Evaluation of the Healthy Beat Accupunch (HBA) Exercise Program for the Community Older Adults

Functional Fitness Clinical Trial

— HBA  

Official title:

Development and Evaluation of an Evidence-based Intervention Guideline of the Healthy Beat Accupunch (HBA) Exercise Program for the Community Older Adults

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02567864
• Other study ID #: KMUH-IRB-20140089
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 29, 2015
• Last updated: May 10, 2017
• Start date: July 12, 2014
• Est. completion date: May 5, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: May 2017
• Source: Kaohsiung Medical University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goals of this research project were: 1) to develop a senior-tailored Healthy Beat Accupunch (HBA) exercise program for community-dwelling older adults, 2) to test the effects of a six-month, instructor-led HBA exercise program, and 3) to evaluate the feasibility, compliance, and long-term effects of a six-month, DVD-guide HBA exercise program.

Description:

A three-year, longitudinal, triangulation research method was applied. First Year (Phase I): A preliminary HBA exercise program, including hard copy descriptions and DVD demonstrations of each exercise, was mailed to the 16 experts in the Delphi advisory panel for their critique and evaluation. First Year (Phase II): A quasi-experimental, one-group, pretest-posttest design was used to pilot-test the feasibility of the HBA exercise program on a group of 31 community-dwelling older adults in a community care station. Second Year: A cluster randomized controlled trial was used to test the effects of a six-month, instructor-led HBA exercise program on the functional fitness (cardiovascular-respiratory function, body flexibility, muscle strength, and muscle endurance) of the community-dwelling older adults. Through the use of convenience sampling strategy, eight community care stations with 232 older adults in Kaohsiung were recruited and randomly assigned based on their community care stations to a HBA experimental group or a wait-list control group. Participants in the experimental group received the HBA exercise program led by trained and certified instructors, three times per week, 40 minutes per practice for six months; participants in the wait-list control group continued with their regular daily activities. One pre-test and two post-tests, three months apart, were conducted. Third Year: Using the same method as in the second year, participants from the second year continued practicing the HBA exercise program, but guided by a DVD, for another six months. The feasibility, compliance, and effectiveness of the DVD-led HBA exercise program on the community-dwelling older adults were tested, and another two post-tests, three months apart, were conducted on the same outcome measurements as in the second year.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 232
• Est. completion date: May 5, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: May 5, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 65 Years to 100 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• community-dwelling older adults aged 65 and over

• Mandarin or Taiwanese speakers

• able to stand and walk without assistive devices

• cognitive alert and able to verbally state their name, address, and answer questions.

Exclusion Criteria:

• participants with severe and acute cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, or pulmonary illnesses.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Functional Fitness

Intervention

Other:
• Healthy Beat Accupunch exercise program
HBA has three phases and takes 40 minutes to complete.
• control
participants maintain their daily activities.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	Kaohsiung Medical University	Kaohsiung

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Kaohsiung Medical University	National Science Council, Taiwan

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Digital Sphygmomanometer	Blood Pressure	12 months
Primary	TruZoneTM Peak Flow Meter	Lung Capacity	12 months
Primary	Two-minute Step Test	Aerobic Endurance	12 months
Primary	Back Scratch Test	Upper Body Flexibility	12 months
Primary	Chair Sit-and-Reach Test	Lower Body Flexibility	12 months
Primary	Digital Handgrip Dynamometer	Hand-Grip Strength	12 months
Primary	Arm Curl Test	Upper Limbs Muscle Endurance	12 months
Primary	Chair Sit-to-Stand Test	Lower Limbs Muscle Endurance	12 months
Secondary	Barthel Index	ADL	12 months
Secondary	chronic pain	pain scale	12 months