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Do exercise interventions designed to prevent falls affect participation in life roles?
— a systematic review and meta-analysis | | Author(s) | Nicola Fairhall, Catherine Sherrington, Lindy Clemson, Ian D Cameron |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 40, no 6, November 2011 |
| Pages | pp 666-674 |
| Source | http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/ http://www.bgs.org.uk/ |
| Keywords | Falls ; Preventative medicine ; Exercise ; Participation ; Clinical surveys. |
| Annotation | The aim of this study was to evaluate the extent to which measurement of participation has been reported in trials of fall prevention interventions in older people, and to determine the effect of exercise interventions on participation in life roles. Randomised controlled trials of exercise interventions that aimed to reduce falls in older people aged 60 and above in community, aged care facilities or hospital settings were included. The outcome of interest was participation in life roles. Trials that measured participation at two time-points were included in the meta-analysis. 96 trials met the review inclusion criteria. Participation was measured in 19 of these trials (20%). Nine instruments were used to measure participation. Fifteen trials, involving 3,616 participants, were included in the meta-analysis. The pooled estimate of the effect of interventions including exercise indicated a small improvement in participation. Meta-regression that showed multifactorial intervention with an exercise component had a larger effect than exercise intervention alone, but the difference was not statistically significant. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-120427002 A |
| Classmark | OLF: LK2: CEA: TMB: 3G |
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