Life after falls prevention exercise - experiences of older people taking part in a clinical trial: a phenomenological study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is little evidence about the lived experience of older people who have completed a falls prevention exercise programme and their life beyond their intervention.

Method

A phenomenological interview study with 23 participants (12 females), mean age 81 years (range 74-93 years), residing in their own homes across England, who had participated in a falls prevention exercise intervention within the Prevention of Falls Injury Trial (PreFIT). The aims were to explore their experiences of: i. being in a clinical trial involving exercise. ii. exercise once their falls prevention intervention had finished. Interpretative data analysis was informed by van Manen's (1997) framework for phenomenological data.

Results

Analysis of interviews about experiences of part

SUBMITTER: Finnegan S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7849142 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature