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The OPERA trial: protocol for a randomised trial of an exercise intervention for older people in residential and nursing accommodation.
Trial report in Trials, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Interventions for preventing falls in older people in care facilities and hospitals.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- Exercise for reducing fear of falling in older people living in the community.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- Exercise for depression.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
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- Fitness training for the old and frail. Effectiveness and impact on daily life coping and self-care abilities.Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie · 2016Trial
- The agreement between proxy and self-completed EQ-5D for care home residents was better for index scores than individual domains.Journal of clinical epidemiology · 2014Trial
- Whole home exercise intervention for depression in older care home residents (the OPERA study): a process evaluation.BMC medicine · 2014Trial
- Exercise for depression in elderly residents of care homes: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.Lancet (London, England) · 2013Trial
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- Geriatric Depression and Inappropriate Medication: Benefits of Interprofessional Team Cooperation in Nursing Homes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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- Predictors of attendance to group exercise: a cohort study of older adults in long-term care facilities.BMC geriatrics · 2015Article
- Late-life depression and quality of life in a geriatric evaluation and management unit: an exploratory study.BMC geriatrics · 2014Article
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- Sarcopenia and some simple approaches to modifying the consequence of ageing.Clinical medicine (London, England) · 2011Article
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Abstract
backgroundDepression is common in residents of Residential and Nursing homes (RNHs). It is usually undetected and often undertreated. Depression is associated with poor outcomes including increased morbidity and mortality. Exercise has potential to improve depression, and has been shown in existing trials to improve outcomes among younger and older people. Existing evidence comes from trials that are short, underpowered and not from RNH settings. The aim of the OPERA trial is to establish whether exercise is effective in reducing the prevalence of depression among older RNH residents.
methodOPERA is a cluster randomised controlled trial. RNHs are randomised to one of two groups with interventions lasting 12 months. INTERVENTION GROUP: a depression awareness and physical activity training session for care home staff, plus a whole home physical activation programme including twice weekly physiotherapist-led exercise groups. The intervention lasts for one year from randomisation, or CONTROL GROUP: a depression awareness training session for care home staff.Participants are people aged 65 or over who are free of severe cognitive impairment and willing to participate in the study. Our primary outcome is the prevalence of depressive symptoms, a GDS-15 score of five or more, in all participants at the end of the one year intervention period. Our secondary depression outcomes include remission of depressive symptoms and change in GDS-15 scores in those with depressive symptoms prior to randomisation. Other secondary outcomes include, fear of falling, mobility, fractures, pain, cognition, costs and health related quality of life. We aimed to randomise 77 RNHs. DISCUSSION: Home recruitment was completed in May 2010; 78 homes have been randomised. Follow up will finish in May 2011 and results will be available late 2011.
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