"I wouldn't have joined if it wasn't online": understanding older people's engagement with teleyoga classes for fall prevention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Yoga-based exercise is a promising strategy for promoting healthy ageing, with the potential to reduce falls and increase physical, cognitive and psychological wellbeing. Teleyoga (real-time yoga provided via interactive videoconferencing) can deliver yoga programs at scale, potentially reducing costs, increasing convenience, and reaching people who cannot attend studio-based classes. But better understanding of how older people perceive and engage with teleyoga is needed to optimise its design, implementation and promotion.

Methods

This study built on a previous realist process evaluation of the SAGE yoga trial which is testing the effect of a yoga-based exercise program on falls among 700 community-dwelling people aged 60 + years. In this second phase of evaluat

SUBMITTER: Haynes A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9628174 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature