NCT04842396

Low-volume Cycling Training in Older People With Multimorbidity

Completed NA Last updated 4 October 2021

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Experimental:Motorized cycle ergometer in Frailty in 24 participants. Completed in 10 December 2019.

Timeline

1 September 2019

Primary endpoint
10 December 2019

10 December 2019

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Universidade da Coruña
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	24
Start date	1 September 2019
Primary completion	10 December 2019
Estimated completion	10 December 2019
Sites	1 location across Spain

Drugs / interventions tested

• Experimental:Motorized cycle ergometer

Conditions studied

• Frailty — all drugs for Frailty →
• Morbidity, Multiple — all drugs for Morbidity, Multiple →

Sponsor

Universidade da Coruña

Who can join

65 and older, any sex, with Frailty or Morbidity, Multiple. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

INTRODUCTION: Physical exercise, when practiced regularly and in adequate doses, is a proven nonpharmacological measure that helps to prevent and reverse noncommunicable diseases, as well as reduce mortality rates from any cause. In general, older adults perform insufficient physical activity and do not meet the doses recommended by the World Health Organization for the improvement of health through physical activity.

OBJECTIVE: Our main aim will be to evaluate the effect of a 6-week intervention on health-related outcomes (body composition, hemodynamic and functionality changes) in 24 individuals aged 65 and older with multimorbidity.

METHODS AND ANALYSIS: The study was a 2 x 2 randomized controlled trial using a two-group design (exercise vs. control) and two repeated measures (pre- vs. postintervention). The intervention (on the MOTOmed Muvi) will consist of a very low volume (60 minutes per week) of low-to-moderate intensity exercise training to assess body composition evaluation, hemodynamic parameter evaluation and functional evaluation. Participants will be recruited at the Gerontological Complex La Milagrosa (A Coruña, Spain), consisting of a daycare center and a nursing home.

For the statistical analysis, nonparametric ANOVA type statistics and mixed models for repeated measures will be used.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Low-volume cycling training improves body composition and functionality in older people with multimorbidity: a randomized controlled trial.
   Carballeira E, Censi KC, Maseda A, López-López R, et al · · 2021 · cited 9× · PMID 34183717 · DOI 10.1038/s41598-021-92716-9