Robins Lauren M, Hill K D, Day Lesley, Clemson Lindy, Finch Caroline, Haines Terry
School of Physiotherapy, Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences Department, Monash University, Australia.
J Aging Phys Act. 2016 Jul;24(3):350-62. doi: 10.1123/japa.2015-0133. Epub 2015 Nov 3.
This paper describes why older adults begin, continue, and discontinue group- and home-based falls prevention exercise and benefits and barriers to participation. Telephone surveys were used to collect data for 394 respondents. Most respondents reported not participating in group- (66%) or home-based (78%) falls prevention exercise recently. Reasons for starting group-based falls prevention exercise include health benefits (23-39%), health professional recommendation (13-19%), and social interaction (4-16%). They discontinued because the program finished (44%) or due to poor health (20%). Commonly reported benefits were social interaction (41-67%) and health (15-31%). Disliking groups was the main barrier (2-14%). Home-based falls prevention exercise was started for rehabilitation (46-63%) or upon health professional recommendation (22-48%) and stopped due to recovery (30%). Improvement in health (18-46%) was the main benefit. These findings could assist health professionals in prescribing group-based falls prevention exercise by considering characteristics of older adults who perceive social interaction to be beneficial.
本文描述了老年人开始、持续和停止基于团体及家庭的预防跌倒运动的原因，以及参与运动的益处和障碍。通过电话调查收集了394名受访者的数据。大多数受访者表示最近未参加基于团体（66%）或家庭（78%）的预防跌倒运动。开始基于团体的预防跌倒运动的原因包括健康益处（23%-39%）、健康专业人员的建议（13%-19%）以及社交互动（4%-16%）。他们停止参与是因为项目结束（44%）或健康状况不佳（20%）。普遍提到的益处是社交互动（41%-67%）和健康（15%-31%）。不喜欢团体是主要障碍（2%-14%）。基于家庭的预防跌倒运动开始是为了康复（46%-63%）或出于健康专业人员的建议（22%-48%），并因康复而停止（30%）。健康改善（18%-46%）是主要益处。这些发现可以帮助健康专业人员通过考虑那些认为社交互动有益的老年人的特征来开出处方，推荐基于团体的预防跌倒运动。
