Multihealth Promotion Programs on Physical Health and Quality of Life in Older Adults: Quasi-Experimental Study
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: Physical activity and appropriate nutrition are essential for older adults. Improving physical health and quality of life can lead to healthy aging. OBJECTIVE: This study aims to investigate the long-term effects of multihealth promotion programs on the physical and mental health of older adults in communities. METHODS: A quasi-experimental method was used to recruit 112 older adults voluntarily from a pharmacy in central Taiwan between April 2021 and February 2023. Participants were divided into an experimental group receiving a multihealth promotion program and a control group with no specific intervention. The study measured frailty, nutritional status, well-being, and quality of life using standardized tools such as the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS), Mini-Nutritional Assessment-Short Form (MNA-SF), Well-being Scale for Elders, and the EQ-5D-3L. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent t tests, Pearson correlation, and generalized estimating equations. RESULTS: A total of 112 participants were recruited. There were 64 (57.1%) in the experimental group and 48 (42.9%) in the control group. The experimental group exhibited significantly better quality of life (EQ-5D index) at weeks 12 (β=-.59; P=.01) and 24 (β=-.44; P=.04) compared to the control group. The experimental group muscle mass significantly increased at weeks 24 (β=4.29; P<.01) and 36 (β=3.03; P=.01). Upper limb strength improved significantly at weeks 12 (β=3.4; P=.04) and 36 (β=5; P=.01), while core strength showed significant gains at weeks 12 (β=4.43; P=.01) and 36 (β=6.99; P<.01). Lower limb strength increased significantly only at week 12 (β=4.15; P=.01). Overall physical performance improved significantly at weeks 12 (β=5.47; P<.01), 24 (β=5.17; P<.01), and 36 (β=8.79; P<.01). CONCLUSIONS: The study's findings highlight the practical benefits of interventions, including physical and social activities and nutritional support, in enhancing the quality of life and general physical health of older adults. This study's findings have significant implications for clinical practice. These findings can aid in the establishment of effective interventions for older adults. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05412251; https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05412251.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".