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| Health education programs may be as effective as exercise intervention on improving health-related quality of life among Japanese people over 65 years | | Author(s) | Kotaro Tamari, Kenji Kawamura, Mitsuya Sato, Kazuhiro Harada |
| Journal title | Australasian Journal on Ageing, vol 31, no 3, September 2012 |
| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell, September 2012 |
| Pages | pp 152-158 |
| Source | wileyonlinelibrary.com |
| Keywords | Living in the community ; Health [elderly] ; Quality of life ; Exercise ; Preventative medicine ; Evaluation ; Japan. |
| Annotation | The current study aimed to examine the short-term effects of a three-month health education programme on health-related quality of life using the Short-Form 36. 25 Japanese people aged 65 and older in the health education programme were compared with two historical control groups undertaking group and resistance exercise interventions and matched by age, sex and body mass index. A series of split-design two-way analyses of variance were conducted for data analysis. Significant improvements were observed in general health and vitality subscales of the Short-Form 36 in the educational programme group. Multivariate analyses, adjusted for several confounding factors, revealed that the effects of the three programmes were comparable. These findings suggest that a structured three-month educational programme may be as effective as exercise interventions in improving general health and vitality in a community-dwelling Japanese older population. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130405222 A |
| Classmark | K4: CC: F:59: CEA: LK2: 4C: 7DT |
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