Journal Article

DZNE-2021-00695

http://join2-wiki.gsi.de/foswiki/pub/Main/Artwork/join2_logo100x88.png Types of leisure time physical activities (LTPA) of community-dwelling persons who have been screened positive for dementia.

Müller, B. ; Kropp, P. ; Cardona, M. I.DZNE* ; Michalowsky, B.DZNE* ; van den Berg, N. ; Teipel, S.DZNE* ; Hoffmann, W.DZNE* ; Thyrian, J. R. (Last author)DZNE*

2021
BioMed Central London

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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1186/s12877-021-02201-1

Abstract: To (a) describe the pattern of leisure time physical activities (LTPA) in community-dwelling persons who have been screened positive for dementia and (b) determine the health-related and sociodemographic factors associated with LTPA.Data of the general practitioner-based, randomized, controlled intervention trial, DelpHi-MV (Dementia: life- and person-centered help in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) were used. Patients aged 70 years or older, who lived at home and had a DemTect< 9 were informed about the study by their General practitioners and invited to participate. Data from 436 participants with complete baseline data were used. Standardized, computer-assisted assessments were made during face-to-face interviews at the participants' homes.Two hundred thirty-eight patients (54.6%) carried out LTPA (men 58.4%, women 51.8%). Physically active patients mentioned one to two different activities; diversity of LTPA was higher for men than for women. The most-frequently mentioned types of activity were gardening (35.3%), cycling (24.1%) and mobility training (12.4%); there was only a statistically significant difference between men and women in cycling, χ2(1) = 21.47, p < .001. The odds of LTPA increased with increasing quality of life (OR = 2.41), lower impairments in activities of daily living (OR = 0.85), and living in a rural environment (OR = 2.02).Our findings suggest that people who have been screened positive for dementia living in a rural area are more likely to be active than people living in an urban area. Following studies should investigate whether this difference has an effect on the progression of dementia.ClinicalTrial.gov Identifier NCT01401582 .

Keyword(s): Activities of Daily Living (MeSH) ; Aged (MeSH) ; Dementia: diagnosis (MeSH) ; Dementia: epidemiology (MeSH) ; Exercise (MeSH) ; Female (MeSH) ; Humans (MeSH) ; Independent Living (MeSH) ; Leisure Activities (MeSH) ; Male (MeSH) ; Quality of Life (MeSH) ; Aging ; Dementia ; Physical activity ; Rural

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Contributing Institute(s):

1. Interventional Health Care Research (IHCR) (AG Thyrian)
2. Translational Health Care Research (AG Hoffmann)
3. Clinical Dementia Research (Rostock /Greifswald) (AG Teipel)

Research Program(s):

1. 353 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF4-353) (POF4-353)

Appears in the scientific report 2021

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