Effectiveness of a novel community exercise transition program for people with moderate to severe neurological disabilities
Bibliographic record
Abstract
PURPOSE: To determine the effectiveness of a community re-integration exercise initiative on function, mood, participation, and exercise adherence for persons with moderate to severe neurological conditions (stroke, multiple sclerosis, etc.). METHODS: We recruited 29 adults (able to walk at least 3 m with assistance) discharged from an outpatient rehabilitation program for the 10 week intervention which was comprised of two components: circuit training and guided transition to a standard gym setting. We evaluated participants before and after the intervention and at four month follow up, including functional balance and mobility using the Timed Up and Go Test, walking endurance using the 6 Minute Walk Test, health related quality of life (HR QoL) using a visual analogue scale, activity and participation using the Frenchay Activities Index and mood using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. RESULTS: Twenty-seven participants completed the intervention. The only significant improvement was in HR QoL. Forty-four percent of participants continued to exercise after cessation of the program. Those who continued to exercise (Exercisers n = 12) experienced more improvement in HR QoL than Non-Exercisers (n = 15). CONCLUSIONS: This re-integration initiative for people with neurological impairments improved HR QoL and facilitated independent exercise for 44% of participants. The novel component of the program, which facilitated transition to standard gym equipment, likely contributed to improved exercise adherence in the longer term.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".