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Eccentric Exercise in Community-dwelling Older Adults (HEX:AGEUK)

29. oktober 2026 oppdatert av: Brett Baxter, The University of Northampton

The Effects of an Eccentric-biased Strengthening Programme Delivered to Community-dwelling Older Adults"

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of a 12-month eccentric-biased strengthening programme in community-dwelling older adults aged 65 years and older. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Can an eccentric-biased strengthening programme be feasibly delivered to community-dwelling older adults in a community setting? Does participation in the programme improve functional mobility, lower-limb strength, falls self-efficacy, and health-related quality of life?

Participants will:

Attend a 12-month supervised eccentric-biased strengthening programme delivered in a community setting.

Complete assessments of functional mobility, lower-limb strength, falls self-efficacy, and health-related quality of life before and after the intervention.

Provide information regarding their experience of participating in the programme to evaluate its acceptability.

Studieoversikt

Status

Har ikke rekruttert ennå

Forhold

Intervensjon / Behandling

Detaljert beskrivelse

Age-related declines in muscle strength, power, and physical function contribute to reduced mobility, loss of independence, and an increased risk of falls among older adults. Resistance exercise is recommended to mitigate these declines; however, conventional exercise programmes may be limited by physical capacity, fatigue, or accessibility. Eccentric muscle actions allow greater force production at a lower metabolic cost and may therefore represent an effective and practical training modality for older adults.

This study will evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of a community-based eccentric-biased strengthening programme delivered to community-dwelling older adults. Participants will be recruited through community organisations and complete a 12-month supervised exercise intervention designed to improve lower-limb strength and functional performance.

Feasibility will be evaluated through recruitment, retention, attendance, adherence, and adverse event monitoring. Acceptability will be assessed through participant feedback and experiences of programme participation. Preliminary effectiveness will be explored through changes in measures of physical function, falls-related self-efficacy, and health-related quality of life collected before and after the intervention.

The findings will provide evidence regarding the practicality of delivering an eccentric-biased strengthening programme within a community setting and will inform the design of future adequately powered controlled studies investigating the effectiveness of eccentric exercise interventions in older adults.

Studietype

Intervensjonell

Registrering (Antatt)

30

Fase

  • Ikke aktuelt

Kontakter og plasseringer

Denne delen inneholder kontaktinformasjon for de som utfører studien, og informasjon om hvor denne studien blir utført.

Studiekontakt

Studer Kontakt Backup

Studiesteder

    • Northamptonshire
      • Northampton, Northamptonshire, Storbritannia, NN1 5PH
        • University of Northampton

Deltakelseskriterier

Forskere ser etter personer som passer til en bestemt beskrivelse, kalt kvalifikasjonskriterier. Noen eksempler på disse kriteriene er en persons generelle helsetilstand eller tidligere behandlinger.

Kvalifikasjonskriterier

Alder som er kvalifisert for studier

65 år og eldre (Eldre voksen)

Tar imot friske frivillige

Ja

Kjønn som er kvalifisert for studier

Alle

Beskrivelse

Inclusion Criteria:

Age ≥ 65 years Ambulant with or without a walking aid

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Inability to provide informed consent, assessed using the Mental Capacity Act two-stage assessment

Studieplan

Denne delen gir detaljer om studieplanen, inkludert hvordan studien er utformet og hva studien måler.

Hvordan er studiet utformet?

Designdetaljer

  • Primært formål: Behandling
  • Tildeling: N/A
  • Intervensjonsmodell: Enkeltgruppeoppdrag
  • Masking: Ingen (Open Label)

Våpen og intervensjoner

Deltakergruppe / Arm
Intervensjon / Behandling
Eksperimentell: Intervention

Eccentric exercise programme

Participants will undertake a 12-month supervised eccentric-biased strengthening programme delivered in a community setting, with the option of performing this at home. The intervention will consist of 6x 1-minute progressive lower-limb strengthening exercises emphasising the eccentric phase of movement, including functional tasks relevant to activities of daily living. Exercise difficulty will be progressively increased throughout the programme according to participant performance and tolerance. Community sessions will be led by staff at the community setting who will have been educated and trained by developers of the exercise programme in a group-based format. The intervention is designed to improve lower-limb strength, mobility, balance confidence, and physical function in community-dwelling older adults.

Hva måler studien?

Primære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Tiltaksbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Feasibility of Intervention Recruitment
Tidsramme: Up to 12 months

Feasibility of recruitment will be assessed through participant recruitment capacity, calculated as the number of participants enrolled on the study relative to total number of people invited to take part.

Up to 12 months
Feasibility of Intervention Delivery
Tidsramme: Up to 12 months

Feasibility of delivery will be assessed through participant partiicpant adherence to the intervention, calculated as the number of sessions attended relative to the total number of sessions presrcibed.

Up to 12 months

Sekundære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Tiltaksbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Timed Up and Go Test
Tidsramme: Up to 12 months

Timed Up and Go test wil require participants to rise from a chair, walk three metres, turn around, return to the chair, and sit down. The time taken to complete the test will be recorded in seconds.

Up to 12 months
Sit-to-stand Test
Tidsramme: Up to 12 months

Lower-limb strength will be assessed using the Five Times Sit-to-Stand test. Participants will be asked to stand up and sit down five times as quickly as possible from a standard chair without using their arms for assistance. Time to completion will be recorded in seconds.

Up to 12 months
Falls Efficacy Scale International
Tidsramme: Up to 12 months

The Falls Efficacy Scale International (FES-I) will be used to assess the fear of falling. The FES-I is a validated self-report questionnaire that evaluates an individual's concern about falling during a range of everyday activities. Higher scores indicate greater concern about falling.

Up to 12 months
EuroQol Five-Dimension Five-Level Questionnaire
Tidsramme: Up to 12 months

Health-related quality of life will be assessed using the EQ-5D-5L questionnaire. The instrument evaluates mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, and anxiety/depression, alongside a self-rated health visual analogue scale.

Up to 12 months
Intervention Acceptability
Tidsramme: Up to 12 months

Participant acceptability of the eccentric-biased strengthening programme will be assessed through post-intervention feedback. Information regarding participant satisfaction, perceived benefits, barriers to participation, and willingness to continue exercise following programme completion will be collected.

Up to 12 months

Samarbeidspartnere og etterforskere

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Sponsor

Etterforskere

  • Hovedetterforsker: Brett A. Baxter, PhD, University of Northampton

Studierekorddatoer

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Studer hoveddatoer

Studiestart (Antatt)

23. november 2026

Primær fullføring (Antatt)

30. juni 2027

Studiet fullført (Antatt)

1. juli 2027

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først innsendt

22. oktober 2026

Først innsendt som oppfylte QC-kriteriene

29. oktober 2026

Først lagt ut (Faktiske)

4. november 2026

Oppdateringer av studieposter

Sist oppdatering lagt ut (Faktiske)

4. november 2026

Siste oppdatering sendt inn som oppfylte QC-kriteriene

29. oktober 2026

Sist bekreftet

1. oktober 2026

Mer informasjon

Begreper knyttet til denne studien

Andre studie-ID-numre

  • FHSHEA000518

Plan for individuelle deltakerdata (IPD)

Planlegger du å dele individuelle deltakerdata (IPD)?

JA

IPD-planbeskrivelse

De-identified individual participant data for all primary and secondary outcome measures reported in study publications will be made available. This includes baseline and post-intervention values for TUG, 5×STS, Short FES-I, EQ-5D-5L, and intervention adherence metrics. No personally identifiable information will be shared.

IPD-delingstidsramme

IPD will be available indefinitely as it will be stored on a public resposiotory (PURE).

Tilgangskriterier for IPD-deling

Public

IPD-deling Støtteinformasjonstype

  • STUDY_PROTOCOL
  • SEVJE

Studiedata/dokumenter

Legemiddel- og utstyrsinformasjon, studiedokumenter

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Nei

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Nei

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