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dc.contributor.authorQi, M
dc.contributor.authorMoyle, W
dc.contributor.authorJones, C
dc.contributor.authorWeeks, B
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-25T01:22:38Z
dc.date.available2020-11-25T01:22:38Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.issn1661-7827
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/ijerph17228462
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/399639
dc.description.abstractTai Chi, combined with Thera-band (TCTB) exercise may be associated with an improvement in health where it increases physical fitness, improves psychological well-being, and decreases pain. This paper aimed to determine the feasibility of TCTB exercise in older sedentary office workers. Forty office workers aged over 55 years participated in a pilot randomized controlled trial (i.e., 12-week TCTB exercise or Tai Chi exercise only). Feasibility of the TCTB exercise approach was ascertained through the recruitment and enrolment rate, acceptability of the study intervention by participants including retention and adherence rates, participants’ learning process, the appropriateness of data collection as well as the participants’ evaluation of the intervention. Recruitment took longer than planned, with a low recruitment rate of 2.0% (42/2020), but a high enrolment rate of 95.2% (40/42). Thirty-one participants (i.e., 77.5%) completed the intervention. Of those who completed the trial, the overall average attendance was reported as 85.2%; 84.7% in the TCTB group and 85.7% in the Tai Chi only group. A total of 58.3% of participants (n = 21) could independently practice the TCTB or Tai Chi exercise motions at the end of the learning stage. There were no missing data except for the nine participants who withdrew during the intervention. No adverse events or effects were reported, and all participants were satisfied with the 12-week exercise intervention. Results support the feasibility of a large-scale randomized controlled trial to explore the efficacy of a TCTB program for improving health in older sedentary office workers.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherMDPI AG
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom8462
dc.relation.ispartofissue22
dc.relation.ispartofjournalInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
dc.relation.ispartofvolume17
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSports science and exercise
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4207
dc.subject.keywordsTai Chi
dc.subject.keywordsfeasibility
dc.subject.keywordsolder sedentary office workers
dc.subject.keywordsphysical fitness
dc.subject.keywordspsychological well-being
dc.titleFeasibility of a tai chi with thera-band training program: A pilot study
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationQi, M; Moyle, W; Jones, C; Weeks, B, Feasibility of a tai chi with thera-band training program: A pilot study, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020, 17 (22), pp. 8462
dcterms.dateAccepted2020-11-12
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.date.updated2020-11-24T23:57:28Z
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gro.rights.copyright© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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gro.griffith.authorMoyle, Wendy
gro.griffith.authorWeeks, Benjamin K.


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