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Effects of a traditional Chinese mind-body exercise, Baduanjin, on the physical and cognitive functions in the community of older adults with cognitive frailty: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.
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- Effects of traditional fitness qigong exercise on frailty status and overall well-being in frail or pre-frail patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of traditional Chinese mind-body exercises on older adults with cognitive impairment: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Pooled it
- Effects of Baduanjin exercise on cognitive frailty, oxidative stress, and chronic inflammation in older adults with cognitive frailty: a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in public health · 2024Trial
- Effects of Baduanjin imagery and exercise on cognitive function in the elderly: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study.Frontiers in public health · 2022Trial
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- Perspectives of community-dwelling older adults with chronic diseases on Baduanjin practice: A qualitative study.PloS one · 2026Article
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- Effect of a Baduanjin intervention on the risk of falls in the elderly individuals with mild cognitive impairment: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2023Article
- CNN-LSTM Model for Recognizing Video-Recorded Actions Performed in a Traditional Chinese Exercise.IEEE journal of translational engineering in health and medicine · 2023Article
- A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy of Baduanjin exercise on older adults with sarcopenia in China.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2022Article
- Exercise interventions for older people with cognitive frailty-a scoping review.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- Global Research on Cognitive Frailty: A Bibliometric and Visual Analysis of Papers Published during 2013-2021.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Baduanjin exercise modulates the hippocampal subregion structure in community-dwelling older adults with cognitive frailty.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
- Automated assessment of balance: A neural network approach based on large-scale balance function data.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionCognitive frailty (CF) is a clinical manifestation characterised by the simultaneous presence of both physical frailty and cognitive impairment among older adults without dementia and has become a new target for healthy ageing. Increasing evidence shows that regular Baduanjin (a traditional Chinese mind-body exercise) training is beneficial in improving physical function and cognitive ability in the older adults. The primary aim of this trial is to observe the effect of Baduanjin on physical and cognitive functions in older adults with CF. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: In this prospective, outcome assessor-blind, two-arm randomised controlled trial, a total of 102 participants with CF will be recruited and randomly allocated (1:1) into the Baduanjin training or usual physical activity control group. The control group will receive health education for 30 min at least once a month. Based on health education, participants in the Baduanjin exercise group will receive a 24-week Baduanjin training with 60 min per session and 3 sessions per week, while those in the usual physical activity control group will maintain their original lifestyle. Primary outcomes (frailty index and global cognitive ability), body composition, grip force, balance, fatigue, specific cognitive domain, including memory, execution and visual spatial abilities, and life quality of secondary outcomes will be measured at baseline, and at 13 and 25 weeks after randomisation, while the structural and functional MRI will be measured at baseline and 25 weeks after randomisation. The mixed linear model will be conducted to observe the intervention effects. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: The study has been approved by the ethics committee of the second people's hospital of Fujian province (Approval no. 2018-KL015). Results will be submitted for publication in peer-reviewed journals and disseminated at scientific conferences. TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ChiCTR1800020341; Pre-results.
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