Evaluating the physical activity status of 259 advanced aged people / 中华老年医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To evaluate the physical activity status of the advanced aged adults and determine the influence of long-term physical activities on the physical function and health of the advanced aged adults. Methods A survey was carried out from March, 2004 to September, 2004, among those advanced aged intellectuals or cadres taken care chronically by the Patient Clinic for Senior Cadre in PUMC Hospital. Physical activity was assessed using the modified leisure-time physical activity questionnaire. Results There were 259 participants, aged from 80 to 94 (83.92?3.41)years. 85.3%(221/259 cases)took physical activities almost every day for more than eleven years, and 21.7% of them (48/221 case)even stuck to it from their youth. Among these 221 participants, 34.4% took≥ 60 min per day of physical activities,and 51.0% ≥30 min per day. The group that took ≥ 60 min per day held a lower proportion than the group that took ≥ 30 min per day to suffer from agrypnia, debilitation, somasthenia and anorexy (by 20.3%, 24.0%, 21.7% and 13.1%,respectively(P