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Trial registered on ANZCTR

Registration number

ACTRN12617000046303

Ethics application status

Approved

Date submitted

21/11/2016

Date registered

10/01/2017

Date last updated

10/01/2017

Type of registration

Retrospectively registered

Titles & IDs

Public title

The influence of various form of nordic walking training on functional fitness and quality of life in the women over 60 years old.

Scientific title

The influence of various form of nordic walking training on functional fitness and quality of life in the women over 60 years old.

Secondary ID [1]

None

Universal Trial Number (UTN)

Trial acronym

Linked study record

Health condition

Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied:

functional fitness

quality of life

Condition category

Condition code

Musculoskeletal

Normal musculoskeletal and cartilage development and function

Intervention/exposure

Study type

Interventional

Description of intervention(s) / exposure

Examine intervention will be our original nordic walking training program. Examine program will be realised for 8 weeks with frequency of twice per week. Each session will last 1 hour and it will took place outside in a city park. The training will consist of walking and a large amount of exercises with poles as a useful gym equipment. The sequence parts of the training: 1.warming up (10 minutes), 2. nordic walking (10 minutes), 3. central part (20 minutes), 4. nordic walking (10 minutes), 5. cooling down (10 minutes). Exercises with poles will be conducted during the warming up, in the central part of session and finally cooling down. During warming up and cooling down it will be only individual exercises with poles, but central part of session will be consist of a large amount of exercises with poles. It will be individual exercises, exercises in pairs and exercises on the obstacle course. It will be strengthening, stretching, breathing and balance exercises. In addition it will be exercises improve reaction time. We designed these all exercises especially for elderly to improve their physical fitness and daily functioning. The intensity of these sessions will be between 14-16/20 RPE scale. Trainings will be conducted in groups up to 10 people. Training will be conducted by a qualified Instructor Nordic Walking, who is also Master of Physiotherapy. In addition during trainings will always be at least 2 extra person (from the reaserch group) to assist in the safe conduct of trainings and monitoring of participants We will register of attendance at session. Regarding to recruting to 3 groups, we first will recruite people to experimental group, then to comparator group and finally to control group. Each subject will be examined two times: at baseline - prior to training program and immediately after 8 weeks program.

Intervention code [1]

Treatment: Other

Comparator / control treatment

Control intervention will be standard nordic walking training program. It will be realised for 8 weeks with frequency of twice per week. Each session will last 1 hour and it will took place outside in a city park. The training will consist only of nordic walking and short warming up and cooling down phases. The sequence parts of the training: 1 warming up (5 minutes), 2. nordic walking (50 minutes), 3. cooling down (5 minutes). Trainings will be conducted in groups up to 10 people. The intensity of these sessions will be between 14-16/20 RPE scale. Trainings will be conducted by a qualified Instructor Nordic Walking who is also Master of Physiotherapy. In addition during trainings will always be at least 2 extra person (from the reaserch group) to assist in the safe conduct of trainings and monitoring of participants. We will register of attendance at session. Each subject will be examined two times: at baseline - prior to training program and immediately after 8 weeks program.

Control group

Active

Outcomes

Primary outcome [1]

Influence of our original nordic walking program on functional fitness. Functional fitness will be assessed by Senior Fitness Test, Tinetti Performance Oriented Mobility Assessment, Timed Up and Go Test, Functional Reach Test.

Timepoint [1]

Baseline and after 8 weeks training program.

Primary outcome [2]

Influence of our original nordic walking program on quality of life. Qualty of life will be assessed by questionnaire for quality of life assessment sf-36 v.1.

Timepoint [2]

Baseline and after 8 weeks training program.

Secondary outcome [1]

Influence of our original nordic walking program on fear of falling. Fear of falling will be assessed by Visual Analog Scale.

Timepoint [1]

Baseline and after 8 weeks training program.

Eligibility

Key inclusion criteria

women over 60 years old

Minimum age

60 Years

Maximum age

No limit

Sex

Females

Can healthy volunteers participate?

Yes

Key exclusion criteria

women with diseases significantly interfering with locomotion,
women with dementia (a result of Mini–Mental State Examination under 24 points),
women participate in other training program of physiotherapy treatment during training period,

Study design

Purpose of the study

Educational / counselling / training

Allocation to intervention

Non-randomised trial

Procedure for enrolling a subject and allocating the treatment (allocation concealment procedures)

Methods used to generate the sequence in which subjects will be randomised (sequence generation)

Masking / blinding

Who is / are masked / blinded?

Intervention assignment

Other design features

Phase

Type of endpoint/s

Statistical methods / analysis

Recruitment

Recruitment status

Recruiting

Date of first participant enrolment

Anticipated

Actual

25/04/2015

Date of last participant enrolment

Anticipated

Actual

Date of last data collection

Anticipated

Actual

Sample size

Target

120

Accrual to date

Final

Recruitment outside Australia

Country [1]

Poland

State/province [1]

Funding & Sponsors

Funding source category [1]

University

Name [1]

University of Physical Education in Krakow

Address [1]

al. Jana Pawla II 78
31-571 Krakow

Country [1]

Poland

Primary sponsor type

University

Name

University of Physical Education in Krakow

Address

al. Jana Pawla II 78
31-571 Krakow

Country

Poland

Secondary sponsor category [1]

None

Name [1]

Address [1]

Country [1]

Ethics approval

Ethics application status

Approved

Ethics committee name [1]

The Ethical Committee of Regional Medical Chamber in Krakow

Ethics committee address [1]

ul. Krupnicza 11a, 31-123 Krakow, Poland

Ethics committee country [1]

Poland

Date submitted for ethics approval [1]

Approval date [1]

15/04/2015

Ethics approval number [1]

44/KBL/OIL/2015

Summary

Brief summary

One of the new challenges in modern medicine and rehabilitation is providing care for the elderly. Many of them have multiple diseases which lead to reduction of physical fitness. Particurarly important in daily activity are walking efforts to support and develop all component of physical fitness. Nordic walking is kind of walking with the use of specially designed poles. In addiction we think that pole are very useful gym equipment for elderly exercises. It can be individual exercises, exercises in pairs and exercises on the obstacle course. These kind of exercises with use poles can improves strength and flexibility of the upper and lower body, coordination complex, balance, gait, performance of activitiesof daily living, independence and quality of life. We believe that elderly can achieve greater effect on functional fitness from exercises with use poles as a useful gym equipment than only from walking with poles. Besides, these exercises are very safe for elderly. The aim of this study is evaluate the impact of various form of nordic walking training program on functional fitness and quality of life in the women over 60 years old. Especially we want to check if training with a large amount of exercises with use poles as a gym eqipment is better than a standar training based only on the walking with poles.

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Public notes

Contacts

Principal investigator

Name

Prof Marek Zak

Address

University of Physical Education in Krakow
al. Jana Pawla II 78
31-571 Krakow

Country

Poland

Phone

+48 666042053

Fax

[email protected]

Contact person for public queries

Name

Marek Zak

Address

University of Physical Education in Krakow
al. Jana Pawla II 78
31-571 Krakow

Country

Poland

Phone

+48 666042053

Fax

[email protected]

Contact person for scientific queries

Name

Marek Zak

Address

University of Physical Education in Krakow
al. Jana Pawla II 78
31-571 Krakow

Country

Poland

Phone

+48 666042053

Fax

[email protected]

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