Impact of adapted taekwondo vs. multicomponent training on health status in independent older women: a randomized controlled trial

Frontiers in Public Health

Public Health

Pablo Valdés-Badilla¹  Tomás Herrera-Valenzuela²  Hadi Nobari³  Braulio Henrique Magnani Branco⁴  Jordan Hernandez-Martinez⁵  Eduardo Guzmán-Muñoz⁶ 

[1] Department of Physical Activity Sciences, Faculty of Education Sciences, Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca, Chile;Sports Coach Career, School of Education, Universidad Viña del Mar, Viña del Mar, Chile;Department of Physical Activity, Sports and Health Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Santiago, Chile;Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain;Postgraduate Program in Health Promotion, Cesumar University, Maringá, Paraná, Brazil;Programa de Investigación en Deporte, Sociedad y Buen Vivir, Universidad de los Lagos, Osorno, Chile;Department of Physical Activity Sciences, Universidad de Los Lagos, Osorno, Chile;School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health, Universidad Santo Tomás, Talca, Chile;School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Talca, Chile;

关键词: combat sports;    resistance training;    exercise;    older adults;    healthy aging;    aging;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2023.1236402

 received in 2023-06-07, accepted in 2023-08-29,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

This study, called the TKD and Aging Project, aimed to analyze and compare the effects of an adapted taekwondo program concerning multicomponent training on blood pressure, morphological variables, food consumption frequency, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), physical fitness, handgrip strength, and postural balance in independent older women. A randomized controlled trial study was conducted with parallel groups for 8 weeks (24 sessions of 60 min each), employing a double-blind design and incorporating repeated measures. Twenty-eight older women initially participated in the intervention. Three participants were excluded because they did not participate in the re-assessments. Thus, 14 older women from the adapted taekwondo group (TKD; age: 62.86 ± 2.38 years) and 11 from the multicomponent training group (MCT; age: 63.18 ± 1.94 years) participated in the final analysis. A two-factor mixed analysis of variance (ANOVA) model with repeated measures was performed to measure the time × group effect. The TKD showed significant improvements in the mental health (p = 0.024; ES = 0.91) and general health (p < 0.001; ES = 0.75) dimensions of the HRQoL, as well as in the chair stand (p = 0.001; ES = 1.18), arm curl (p < 0.001; ES = 2.10), 2-min step (p < 0.001; ES = 1.73), and chair sit-and-reach (p = 0.001; ES = 0.91) tests. Additionally, it showed a significant reduction in postural balance for the eyes-closed condition in the center of the pressure area (p = 0.021; ES = 0.89), mean velocity (p = 0.004; ES = 0.79), and mediolateral velocity (p < 0.001; ES = 1.26). However, the MCT showed significant increases in the general health (p = 0.013; ES = 0.95) dimension of the HRQoL and a significant reduction (p = 0.039; ES = 0.28) in the mediolateral velocity of postural balance for the eyes-closed condition. Multiple comparisons showed that the TKD scored significantly higher in the chair stand (p = 0.017; ES = 1.79), arm curl (p = 0.003; ES = 1.77), and 2-min step (p = 0.018; ES = 0.91) tests than the MCT. Compared to multicomponent training, taekwondo improves postural balance and provides better benefits in terms of physical fitness and HRQoL for older women. Therefore, it is possible to recommend it as a safe physical activity strategy, as long as it is well-dosed, since it showed high adherence to intervention in older women.

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