Sedentary Lifestyle
Conditions
Interventions
This is a randomized controlled trial, using a parallel cluster design, with two groups and simple blinding of evaluators. Participants will be allocated using a random sequence generated by statistic
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Sponsors
Faculdade de Medicina
Faculdade de Medicina
Eligibility
Age
60 Years to 80 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: People aged 60 to 80 years old of both sexes; sedentary; not practicing physical activities; enrolled in activities offered by the Open University for the Elderly, such as community gardening, oral health, basic computer science, literacy and literacy, craft activities, choir, basic English and guitar, including waiting list, for at least six months before the start of this research; practicing less than 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical exercise per week, for at least three months
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Being a smoker; consuming alcoholic beverages frequently; or taking antioxidant or pro-oxidant supplements in the last 6 months; inability to move from one point to another without personal or technical assistance; presenting any contraindication to carrying out the Multicomponent Training in Progressive Phases, such as injuries; muscle fractures; joint fractures in the last 3 months; terminal illness; serious cardiovascular disease; dementia; depression; Alzheimer's disease
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| It is expected to find improvements in physical fitness, positive changes in antioxidant markers, prevention of DNA damage and increased quality of life as effects of Multicomponent Training in Progressive Phases, verified through laboratory tests, functional tests and standardized questionnaires, with a variation of at least 5% in the measurements carried out one week before and two weeks after the intervention, between groups of sedentary elderly people. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| It is expected to observe correlations between the improvement in physical fitness and the increase in the levels of antioxidant markers, the reduction of DNA damage and the increase in the quality of life in sedentary elderly individuals undergoing Multicomponent Training in Progressive Phases, verified through functional tests, laboratory analyses and application of standardized questionnaires, with a variation of at least 5% in the measurements carried out one week before and two weeks after the intervention. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactWelligton Souza
Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul
Outcome results
None listed