Nordic walking training and nutritional supplementation in pre-frail older Indians: an open-labelled experimental pre-test and post-test pilot study to develop intervention model

Identifying and treating people in a pre-frail state may be an effective way to prevent or delay frailty and preserve their functional capacity. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of, and compliance with, a 12 week individualized nutritional supplementation (INS) and Nordic walking (NW) program...

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Published in:BMC geriatrics 2018-09, Vol.18 (1), p.212-212, Article 212
Main Authors: Chatterjee, Prasun, Kumar, Prakash, Kandel, Ramesh, Madan, Ruchika, Tyagi, Meenakshi, Kumar, Deepa Anil, Khan, Maroof Ahmad, Desai, Gaurav, Chaudhary, Preeti, Gupta, Shyama, Grover, Kanika, Dey, Aparajit Ballav
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activities of daily living
Adapted indoor Nordic walk
Age
Aging (Biology)
Analysis
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Dietary supplements
Elderly
Exercise
Frailty
Gait
Geriatrics
Health aspects
Individualized nutritional supplementation
Intervention
Kruskal-Wallis test
Mental depression
Mood
Nutrition
Nutritional status
Older people
Physical fitness
Population
Sarcopenia
Statistical analysis
Systematic review
Variables
Walking
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Summary:Identifying and treating people in a pre-frail state may be an effective way to prevent or delay frailty and preserve their functional capacity. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of, and compliance with, a 12 week individualized nutritional supplementation (INS) and Nordic walking (NW) program in pre-frail older Indians. The primary measure is physical performance, as indicated by Fried's Frailty scale. Other measures include: cognition, as indicated by the Hindi Mental Status Examination; mood, by the Geriatric Depression Scale; and nutritional status, by the Mini Nutritional Assessment. This is an open-labeled experimental pre-test and post-test study, which took place from October 2012 to December 2014. The study was approved by Institute Ethics committee (IEC/NP-350/2012/RP-26/2012) at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. Participants were sixty-six pre-frail elderly, who were randomly allocated into three subgroups, namely: A (NW only), B (INS only), and C (NW and INS). One-way ANOVA was used to statistically assess differences in baseline characteristics for quantitative variables, with the Chi-Square/Fischer exact test utilized for qualitative variables. Paired t-tests were used to assess pre and post intervention difference within the group for quantitative variables, with McNemar's Chi-Square test used for qualitative variables. Kruskal Wallis test was used to assess significant intervention effects among the groups. A p-value
ISSN:1471-2318
1471-2318
DOI:10.1186/s12877-018-0890-4