Seated Physical Activity in Ageing (SPAA)
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Determining the feasibility of chair-based physical activity interventions aimed at improving various aspects of health and wellbeing in geriatric populations with pre-existing frailty, within a hospital ward setting.
IRAS ID
213954
Contact name
Anna Whittaker
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Birmingham
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
RRK6103, R&D Reference
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 7 months, 15 days
Research summary
This present research study will assess whether it is feasible to conduct two physical activity interventions in the form of short duration (two week), intensive (5 days per week, 35 mins per session) chair-based physical activity interventions within a short-stay hospital ward setting. Feasibility will be assessed relating to acceptability, demand, implementation, practicality, integration, adaptation, expansion and limited efficacy testing, the latter pertaining to the impact of the interventions on physical, psychological, cognitive, social and emotional health outcomes in addition to functional capacity in older adults with pre-existing frailty. Participants will be required to be current patients in the short-stay Harborne “Living Lab” ward of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, and frail according to the Fried Frailty Phenotype criteria (Fried et al. 2001), possessing at least three of the five criteria for frailty, which are poor handgrip strength, unintentional weight loss, low levels of physical activity, slow walking speed, and self-reported exhaustion. This will be implemented in order to ascertain whether the physical activity interventions can benefit to patients with moderate to severe frailty in a hospital ward setting, within only a short duration of time prior to being officially discharged from hospital, usually to some form of assisted living arrangement. This study will firstly help to inform the feasibility of a proposed future clinical trial within this setting, and secondly to provide some degree of information (limited efficacy testing) relating to the impact of the interventions on the physiological, psychological, cognitive, social and emotional health and functional capacity of older adults with pre-existing frailty.
REC name
West Midlands - Coventry & Warwickshire Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
17/WM/0390
Date of REC Opinion
8 Dec 2017
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion