Effects of health risk assessment and counselling on physical activity in older people: A pragmatic randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Interventions to increase physical activity (PA) among older community-dwelling adults may be enhanced by using multidimensional health risk assessment (HRA) as a basis for PA counselling.

Methods

The study was conducted among nondisabled but mostly frail persons 65 years of age and older at an ambulatory geriatric clinic in Bucharest, Romania. From May to July 2014, 200 participants were randomly allocated to intervention and control groups. Intervention group participants completed an initial HRA questionnaire and then had monthly counselling sessions with a geriatrician over a period of six months that were aimed at increasing low or maintaining higher PA. Counselling also addressed the older persons' concomitant health risks and problems. The primary outcome w

SUBMITTER: Herghelegiu AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5519086 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature