@article{ref1,
title="Life after falls prevention exercise - experiences of older people taking part in a clinical trial: a phenomenological study",
journal="BMC geriatrics",
year="2021",
author="Finnegan, Susanne and Bruce, Julie and Seers, Kate",
volume="21",
number="1",
pages="e91-e91",
abstract="BACKGROUND: There is little evidence about the lived experience of older people who have completed a falls prevention exercise programme and their life beyond their intervention. <br><br>METHOD: A phenomenological interview study with 23 participants (12 females), mean age 81 years (range 74-93 years), residing in their own homes across England, who had participated in a falls prevention exercise intervention within the Prevention of Falls Injury Trial (PreFIT). The aims were to explore their experiences of: i. being in a clinical trial involving exercise. ii. exercise once their falls prevention intervention had finished. Interpretative data analysis was informed by van Manen's (1997) framework for phenomenological data. <br><br>RESULTS: Analysis of interviews about experiences of participating in PreFIT and what happened once the falls intervention ended identified five themes: Happy to help; Exercise behaviours; &quot;It keeps me going&quot;; &quot;It wasn't a real fall&quot;; and Loss. Participants did not continue their specific exercises after they had completed the intervention. They preferred walking as their main exercise, and none reported preventing falls as a motivator to continue exercising. Participant experiences suggest that they have their own ideas about what constitutes a fall and there is disparity between their interpretation and the definition used by healthcare professionals and researchers. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Despite good intentions and perceived benefits, on-going participation in falls prevention exercises beyond a structured, supervised intervention was not a priority for these older people. Promoting continuation of falls prevention exercises post-intervention is just as challenging as promoting uptake to and adherence during exercise programmes.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1471-2318",
doi="10.1186/s12877-021-02037-9",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02037-9"
}