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Title: Interruption pf physcial activity due to illness in the Lifestyle Interventions and Indepencence for Elders Pilot (LIFE-P) trial

Author
item PHILLIPS, EDWARD - TUFTS-HNRCA,SPAULDING HOS
item KATULA, JEFFREY - WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
item MILLER, MICHAEL - WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
item WALKUP, MICHAEL - WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
item KING, ABBY - STANFORD UNIVERSITY
item REJESKI, W - WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
item CHURCH, TIM - LOUISIANAN ST. UNIV.
item Fielding, Roger

Submitted to: American College of Sports Medicine
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/19/2008
Publication Date: 5/1/2008
Citation: Phillips, E.M., Katula, J., Miller, M.E., Walkup, M.P., King, A.C., Rejeski, W.J., Church, T., Fielding, R. 2008. Interruption pf physcial activity due to illness in the Lifestyle Interventions and Indepencence for Elders Pilot (LIFE-P) trial. American College of Sports Medicine. Abstract No. 547.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: The Lifestyle Interventions and Independence for Elders Pilot (LIFE-P) was a trial to examine the effects of physical activity (PA) compared to a health education control on measures of disability in sedentary older adults. Medical suspensions were examined for the first 12 months of the trial in the randomized study group. The PA intervention consisted of walking, strength, flexibility, and balance training supplemented with behavioral skills training modules, and utilized a phased center-based schedule of adoption while transitioning to primarily home-based physical activity. Subjects who were medically suspended and unable to return to complete the PA intervention in a trial of mobility limited sedentary older adults had baseline differences of slower walking speeds, lower Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) scores (a standardized measure of walking speed, power, and standing balance) and a higher number of prescribed medications. These results suggest that baseline measures of physical functioning and health status may predict medically related withdrawals in a long-term physical activity trial.