A park-based group mobility program for older adults with difficulty walking outdoors: a quantitative process evaluation of the Getting Older Adults Outdoors (GO-OUT) randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Process evaluations of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of community exercise programs are important to help explain the results of a trial and provide evidence of the feasibility for community implementation. The objectives of this process evaluation for a multi-centre RCT of outdoor walking interventions for older adults with difficulty walking outdoors, were to determine: 1) implementation fidelity (the extent to which elements of the intervention were delivered as specified in the original protocol) and 2) participant engagement (the receipt of intervention components by the participants) in the Getting Older Adults Outdoors (GO-OUT) trial.

Methods

GO-OUT participants attended an active 1-day workshop designed to foster safe, outdoor walking skills. After t

SUBMITTER: Barclay R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10712059 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature