Eligibility Module
The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.
Eligibility Module path is as follows:
Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module
Eligibility Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-25 @ 4:32 AM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-25 @ 4:32 AM
NCT ID:
NCT03538418
Eligibility Criteria:
Inclusion Criteria:
* community-dwelling older people aged \> 65 years;
* able to communicate in Cantonese to ensure that they understand our instructions;
* able to walk with or without an assistive device and able to complete the Time Up and Go (TUG) test with no specific cutoff point to ensure that their mobility and balance is good enough to join the exercise training;
* able to use a smartphone;
* with daily walking steps less than 7000, and
* in a pre-frail or frail state as determined using the Fried Frailty Index; including: i) having experienced an unintentional loss of 10% of body weight in the past year; ii) exhaustion: by answering 'Yes' to either 'I felt that everything I did was an effort', or 'I could not get going in the last week'; iii) a slow walk time: with an average walking speed in the lowest quintile stratified by median body height; iv) reduced grip strength: with maximal grip strength in the lowest quintile stratified by the body mass index quartile; and v) a Physical Activity Scale for Elderly-Chinese (PASE-C) score in the lowest quartile (i.e., \< 30 for men and \< 27.7 for women). The presence of 1-2 indicates pre-frailty, \> 3 items indicates frailty.
Exclusion Criteria are older people who:
* have any physical conditions that hamper their performance of the exercise programme or use of the WAT, such as visual or hearing problems.
* regularly engage in moderately intense exercise (such as hiking, Tai Chi) for \> 3 hours per week.
Healthy Volunteers:
False
Sex:
ALL
Minimum Age:
65 Years
Study:
NCT03538418
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT03538418