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Record W4416610156 · doi:10.3389/fragi.2025.1690493

A community-based, medical student-led walking and education program was associated with a reduction in frailty levels among adults with elevated frailty

2025· article· en· W4416610156 on OpenAlex
Myles W. O’Brien, Taylor M. Wilson, Muhammad Arshad Cheema, Zainab Zafar, Minji Choi, Madeline E. Shivgulam, Olga Theou

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueFrontiers in Aging · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicFrailty in Older Adults
Canadian institutionsNova Scotia Health AuthoritySaint John Regional HospitalDalhousie UniversityUniversité de MonctonUniversité de Sherbrooke
FundersCanada Research Chairs
KeywordsPhysical activityActivities of daily livingReduction (mathematics)DiseaseValue (mathematics)Preferred walking speed

Abstract

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Objectives: Frailty reflects the accumulation of health deficits that an individual develops over their lifespan. Walk with a Future Doc (WWAFD) is a medical student-led, community-based education and walking program. We examine the impact of a 12-week WWAFD program on lowering the frailty levels in a New Brunswick community and if the effects of the program would be specific to those with higher pre-WWAFD frailty levels. Methods: Eighty participants (age: 41-85 years; 51 female individuals) were recruited from the YMCA in New Brunswick (Canada) via word-of-mouth, social media, and consulting local physicians. The inclusion criteria were broad. All community members were welcome to attend the program, but only those over age 18 and those that attended ≥6/12 walks were included in the study. Participants were grouped into non-frail (FI< 0.10; n = 51) and very mild + frail (FI ≥ 0.10; n = 29) groups for comparison. Participants attended a student-led 1-h/week health education and walking program and completed the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging Frailty Index (FI) questionnaire before and after the program. Results: = 0.014). Conclusion and implications: The WWAFD program that included weekly walking and education sessions was associated with reduced frailty levels among adults with FI ≥0.10. This change emphasizes the value of community-based physical activity programs and exemplifies the impact they can have on the participants' health outcomes.

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Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.135
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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Opus teacher head0.015
GPT teacher head0.314
Teacher spread0.299 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it