School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Department of Nursing, The Second Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
Medicine (Baltimore). 2024 May 17;103(20):e38121. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000038121.
BACKGROUND: To determine the potential influence of a home-based virtual group exercise on people's long-term overall health consequences in global Asian population. METHODS: We recruited 1021 participants from more than 7 regions across the globe including Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, United States, Canada, Europe, and other regions. All the participants attended the virtual group Qigong exercise 60-minute bi-weekly with instructors for 6 months from June 2022 to December 2022. The physical, mental, and social well-being and other variables were measured via online questionnaires. RESULTS: The majority were 51 to 65 (50.6%) years old, female (90.2%), married (68.5%), and came from Taiwan (48.9%). Older adults had higher scores on measures of overall health and exercise adherence, and lower scores on measures of sleep quality and depressive symptoms compared with younger counterparts (P < .05). Most of them (95.3%) acknowledged that the improvement of health status was their motivating factor for exercise. Eighty nine percent of the participants believed that social media played an important role in this exercise program. CONCLUSION: This study will suggest such approach has great potential to reduce health disparities and can be implemented to underserved population who has limited recourses to join in-person exercise program.
背景:为了确定家庭虚拟团体运动对全球亚洲人群长期整体健康结果的潜在影响。
方法:我们招募了来自全球 7 个以上地区的 1021 名参与者,包括台湾、马来西亚、新加坡、香港、美国、加拿大、欧洲和其他地区。所有参与者从 2022 年 6 月到 2022 年 12 月,参加了为期 6 个月的虚拟团体气功练习,每两周由指导员进行 60 分钟的课程。通过在线问卷测量身体、心理和社会福祉以及其他变量。
结果:大多数参与者年龄在 51 至 65 岁(50.6%)之间,女性(90.2%),已婚(68.5%),来自台湾(48.9%)。与年轻参与者相比,老年人在整体健康和运动依从性方面的得分更高,而在睡眠质量和抑郁症状方面的得分更低(P<0.05)。他们中的大多数人(95.3%)承认健康状况的改善是他们进行运动的动力。89%的参与者认为社交媒体在这项运动计划中发挥了重要作用。
结论:这项研究表明,这种方法具有很大的潜力,可以减少健康差距,并可以为那些资源有限、无法参加面对面运动计划的弱势群体实施。
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