Relationship between participation in projects of incentives to promote walking and healthy aging among the older population: A four-year longitudinal study.
Prev Med
; 187: 108125, 2024 Oct.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
This study aimed to evaluate the association between the Yokohama Walking Point Program, which promotes walking through feedback on step counts and incentives, and the extension of healthy life expectancy.METHODS:
A total of 4298 individuals aged over 65 years who responded to the 2013 and 2016 surveys and who were not certified as needing long-term care in 2016 were included in this study. The participants were categorized into "non-participation," "participation without uploading," and "participation with uploading" groups based on their involvement and uploading of pedometer data. The objective variable was the occurrence of long-term care certification and deaths over the subsequent four years. A modified Poisson regression model was applied, adjusting for 15 variables before project initiation.RESULTS:
A total of 440 participants (10.2 %) were included in the "participation with uploading" group and 206 (4.8 %) in the "participation without uploading" group. Compared with "non-participation," the risk ratio was 0.77 (95 % confidence interval (CI) 0.59-0.99) for "participation with uploading" and 1.02 (95 % CI 0.75-1.38) for "participation without uploading". In the sensitivity analysis censoring death as an inapplicable outcome and considering functional decline, participation with uploading showed a risk ratio of 0.79 (95 % CI 0.60-1.04) for the likelihood of functional decline.CONCLUSIONS:
The use of pedometers and health point programs based on walking activity is associated with enhancing the health of older individuals participating in the program, representing a population-centric strategy targeting all citizens.Palabras clave
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Caminata
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Envejecimiento Saludable
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Promoción de la Salud
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Motivación
Límite:
Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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En
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Prev Med
Año:
2024
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Article