Keeping Active in Residential Elderly (KARE)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
“Assessing the feasibility and impact of physical activity in healthy ageing, with a specialised chair-based resistance training intervention, in residential care populations with pre-existing frailty".
IRAS ID
219616
Contact name
Anna Whittaker
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Birmingham
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 4 months, 2 days
Research summary
The present study will assess the feasibility and efficacy of a specialised resistance training physical activity intervention of 3-4 days per week of chair based physical activity within a residential care setting over six weeks. Feasibility will relate to the eight main areas of focus for feasibility studies, while efficacy will be determined specifically through limited efficacy testing of the impact of the independent variable (a specialised resistance training intervention) on the dependent variables (physiological, psychological, cognitive, social and emotional health and functional capacity) in geriatric populations with pre-existing frailty; recognising health as a multifactorial concept, incorporating multiple inter-related dimensions.
Eligibility criteria will require participants (current residents in the Ryland View BUPA care home, Arnhem Way, Tipton, Birmingham, United Kingdom), to currently have at least three of the five criteria for frailty as set out by the Fried frailty phenotype criteria (Fried et al. 2001). This will be utilised in order to ascertain whether a future 12-week, moderately intensive physical activity intervention can potentially provide benefit to patients with frailty in a care home setting in relation to various aspects of health and well-being.
REC name
London - Harrow Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/LO/1316
Date of REC Opinion
18 Oct 2017
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion