Frailty is a condition of reduced the capacity in multiple body systems and causing adverse outcomes because of decreasing the ability to cope with stressors. Female sex, the changes of the body imposed by ageing, and coping strategies for stressors are causal mechanisms in the development of frailty. This project is designed with the salutogenic model that is focused on the concepts of health, stress, and coping. The aim of this project is to assess the effect of Salutogenic Frailty Prevention Program on promoting sense of coherence and preventing the development of frailty in women aged 55 years and over
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
84
Laughter yoga: The first component of intervention is the laughter yoga that is a combination of warm up exercise, deep breathing exercises, childlike playfulness and laughter exercises. Each session of laughter yoga will be offered twice a weekly and 40 minutes each time. Health education: The second component of intervention consisted of six health issues which are "health, frailty and generalized sources of resistance for frailty", the most common medical condition and medication use", "physical activity", "healthy diet", "falls prevention" and "cognitive and psychosocial well-being". Case management: The third component of intervention is activities that determine each participant's health needs with the Omaha System and support them for the use of appropriate resources.
Change in Sense of Coherence
Sense of coherence assesses an individual's orientation and internal strengths. It consists of 13 items rated on a 7-point Likert scale, and has three components including comprehensibility (5-item), manageability (4-item) and meaningfulness (4-item)
Time frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months
Change in FRAIL scale
The FRAIL scale consists of 5 items (fatigue, resistance, ambulation, illnesses, loss of weight). Frail scale scores range from 0-5 and represent frailty status as frail (3-5), pre-frail (1-2), and robust (0).
Time frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months
Change in The World Health Organisation- Five Well-Being Index (WHO-5)
The five-items Well-Being Index will be used to assess participants' psychological well-being.
Time frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months
Change in health-related quality of life
The EQ-5D-3L descriptive system evaluates the participants' health state in the five dimensions including mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression.
Time frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months
Change in EQ-VAS
EQ visual analogue scale (EQ-VAS) is a vertical scale that assesses the participant's own judgement regarding their health between 0 and 100.
Time frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months
Change in number of falls
Participants will be asked about the number of falls in the past three months
Time frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months
Change in fear of fall
Participants will be asked a single question: Are you afraid of falling? The possible answers were never afraid," sometimes afraid," afraid, and always afraid.
Time frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months
Change in number of emergency admissions
Participants will be asked about the number of the emergency visit in the past 3 months
Time frame: Baseline, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months
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