The Effects of Exercise in the Frail Elderly

Young-Im Park; Kang-Yi Lee; Tae-Im Kim; Moung-Hee Jeon; Dong-Oak Kim; Ji-Hyun Kim

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Park, Lee, Kim, Jeon, Kim, and Kim: The Effects of Exercise in the Frail Elderly

Original Article

Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing

Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 2012; 23(1): 91-101.

Published online: 31 March 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.0000/jkachn.2012.23.1.91

The Effects of Exercise in the Frail Elderly

Young-Im Park¹, Kang-Yi Lee¹, Tae-Im Kim¹, Moung-Hee Jeon¹, Dong-Oak Kim¹, Ji-Hyun Kim²

¹Professor, Department of Nursing, Daejeon University, Daejeon, Korea.

²Part-time Lecturer, Department of Nursing, Daejeon University, Daejeon, Korea.

Corresponding author: Kim, Ji-Hyun. Department of Nursing, Daejeon University, 96-3 Yongun-dong, Dong-gu, Daejeon 300-716, Korea. Tel: +82-42-280-2650, Fax: +82-42-280-2785, jheyeline@dju.ac.kr

Received 19 October 2011 Revised 20 March 2012 Accepted 21 March 2012

Abstract

Purpose

This study was conducted to examine the effects of exercise on physiological, physical and psychological functions of the frail elderly.

Methods

The research design was a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. Data were collected from September 9 to October 10, 2009. The subjects were 56 frail elders who agreed to participate in this study and each subject was randomly assigned to either the experimental group (n=28) or the control group (n=28). The exercise program was provided to each subject in the experimental group twice in a week for 6 weeks. Data were analyzed with frequency, χ²-test, Kolmogorov-Smirnor test and independent t-test using SPSS/WIN 12.0.

Results

There was a significant improvement in psychological functions in the experimental group compared to the control group (t=1.726, p=.045).

Conclusion

The exercise program showed the effects to improve the psychological functions of the frail elderly with chronic disease. In recommendation, this exercise program could be utilized as a health promoting program for the frail elderly.

Keywords: Frail elderly, Exercise, Depression, Quality of life

Figures and Tables

Table 1

Homogeneity of General Characteristics between Experimental and Control Group (N=56)

Exp.=experimental group; Cont.=control group.

Table 2

Homogeneity in the Dependent Variables before Experimental Group

Table 3

Mean Difference of Physiological Functions between Experimental and Control Group

Exp.=experimental group; Cont.=control group.

Table 4

Mean Difference of Psychological Functions between Experimental and Control Group

Exp.=experimental group; Cont.=control group.

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