Older People’s Rehabilitative Exercise Engagement: OPREE
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Developing an intervention to increase Older People’s Rehabilitative Exercise Engagement (OPREE): An exploratory and Proof of Concept study.
IRAS ID
171548
Contact name
Kevin E Anthony
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Nottingham
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 1 months, 18 days
Research summary
Supportive evidence demonstrates the benefits of generally active lifestyles, and international guidelines recommend that adults should take at least 150 minutes of moderate intensity aerobic physical activity per week. However, physical inactivity within the general adult population is challenging and low levels of exercise are estimated to cost the English economy £8.2 billion per year.
The NHS provide strength and balance exercise classes (SBE) for older people at risk of falls but on average there is 50% adherence. This study aims to explore factors that prevent people from engaging and to develop an intervention that will be provided in addition to the SBE classes.
Through interviews of 12 patients and focus groups with 18 staff, this study will explore the barriers and enablers to completing the SBE programme. An engagement intervention called Older People’s Rehabilitative Exercise Engagement (OPREE) will be developed and tried in a proof of concept study.
Participants and staff will be recruited from Nottingham CityCare Partnership clinical service. Participants for interviews and proof of concept study will be approached by a member of the patient’s clinical team
Participants for the focus groups will be recruited by means of a targeted email from the clinical service manager, coupled with an advertisement in the electronic internal communications newsletter: Cascade.
Entry into the trial is entirely voluntary and participant’s treatment and care will not be affected by their decision.
The interviews, focus and literature review data will be triangulated to inform the OPREE intervention which will be tried with 12 participants. Outcomes will be assessed at baseline and end of intervention and will include adherence to SBE, tolerance with OPREE, balance and function measures and quality of life.
REC name
East Midlands - Nottingham 1 Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
16/EM/0027
Date of REC Opinion
20 Jan 2016
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion