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- Title
Compliance to home-based exercise therapy in elderly patients with knee osteoarthritis.
- Authors
Ay, Saime; Evcik, Deniz; Gökçe-Kutsal, Yeşim; Toraman, Füsun; Okumuş, Müesser; Eyigör, Sibel; Şahin, Nilay
- Abstract
Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the compliance to home-based exercise regimen by elderly patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. Patients and methods: Between May 2012 and May 2013 year, a total of 72 patients (54 females, 18 males) over 65 years old with knee osteoarthritis admitted to the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation outpatient clinic were included in the study. The patients were given a home-based exercise program. They were recommended to perform the exercises 10 times twice a day, for a month. We evaluated the patients' demographic data, comorbid diseases, whether they exercised previously and compliance to exercise. Results: All patients' home exercise program compliance was 62.5%. Males were more compliant than female patients and high education and comorbidity were also associated with poor compliance. Conclusion: The compliance of the geriatric patients to home-based exercise program is difficult and multiple variables affect the compliance.
- Subjects
CHI-squared test; EXERCISE therapy; HOME care services; KNEE diseases; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PATIENT compliance; PROBABILITY theory; REHABILITATION; STATISTICS; COMORBIDITY; DATA analysis; EFFECT sizes (Statistics); CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MANN Whitney U Test; OLD age
- Publication
Turkish Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation / Turkiye Fiziksel Tip ve Rehabilitasyon Dergisi, 2016, Vol 62, Issue 4, p323
- ISSN
1302-0234
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5606/tftrd.2016.54189