The Effects of a Multidimensional Exercise Program on Health Behavior and Biopsychological Factors in Mexican Older Adults
The Effects of a Multidimensional Exercise Program on Health Behavior and Biopsychological Factors in Mexican Older Adults
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02668
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发表时间：
2020-01-24
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
De La Cruz-Ortega, Manuel Francisco
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作者：
Borbon-Castro, Norma Angelica;Castro-Zamora, Andres Aquilino;De La Cruz-Ortega, Manuel Francisco
背景：世界范围内老年人口的增长，使人们关注健康老龄化的重要性。采取健康的生活方式，如每天参加体育活动，是保持身心健康的关键。本研究的目的是调查参与12周的多维运动计划对健康行为和生物心理因素的老年人生活在东北部Mexico.Methods：一个准实验研究进行了45名老年人（35名女性和10名男性; M = 67.24 +/- 5.73岁）的影响。参与者被分配到一个实验组（EG; n = 23），参加了12周的锻炼计划和控制组（CG; n = 22）。前和后分析的运动干预数据进行了调查参与者的健康相关变量，包括体力活动水平，血压，自尊，抑郁症状，和血脂profiles.Results：结果表明，运动干预有助于显着改善老年人的健康相关变量的EG相比，与对照组。例如，EG显著改善收缩压（p < 0.001）和舒张压（p < 0.027）、血脂[例如，胆固醇（p < 0.05）]、甘油三酯（p < 0.05）、自尊（p < 0.005）和抑郁症状（p < 0.002）以及体力活动（p < 0.001）水平。结果还表明，只有那些被诊断患有疾病的EG中的个体与健康的同龄人相比，才能从改善的自尊和身体活动水平中受益。
Background: The population of older adults is increasing worldwide, which brings attention to the importance of healthy aging. Adoption of healthy lifestyle activities such as participating in physical activity on a daily basis is key to maintaining physical and mental health. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of participation in a 12-week multidimensional exercise program on health behavior and biopsychological factors of older adults living in Northeastern Mexico.Methods: A quasi-experimental study was conducted with 45 older adults (35 females and 10 males; M = 67.24 +/- 5.73 years). The participants were assigned to an experimental group (EG; n = 23) that participated in a 12-week exercise program and a control group (CG; n = 22). Pre- and post-analyses of the exercise intervention data were carried out to investigate the participants' health-related variables including physical activity levels, blood pressure, self-esteem, depressive symptoms, and blood lipids profiles.Results: The results indicated that the exercise intervention contributed to significant improvements in the older adults' health-related variables for the EG when contrasted with the control group. For instance, the EG significantly improved systolic (p < 0.001) and diastolic (p < 0.027) blood pressure, blood lipids [e.g., cholesterol (p < 0.05)], triglycerides (p < 0.05), self-esteem (p < 0.005), and depressive symptoms (p < 0.002) as well as physical activity (p < 0.001) levels. The results also demonstrated that only those individuals in the EG diagnosed with disease benefited from improved self-esteem and physical activity levels when contrasted with their healthy counterparts.