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Physical Performance Outcomes and Programme Delivery Costs of ELDERPLAY, a Community-Based Multicomponent Exercise and Recreational Intervention for Older Adults: A Non-Randomized Controlled Evaluation
Trial registry update: COMPLETED. No results reported in the supplied registry record.
OBSERVATIONALMinor significance
What this changes
The finding has not established an approved change to our evidence assessment.
Source date: Oct 8, 2026 · Discovered: Oct 8, 2026 · Assessed: — · Research update
What it does not prove
- Non-randomized allocation with baseline differences between groups means findings are associative and cannot establish that the intervention caused any observed changes. The abstract does not report the actual effect sizes or direction of physical performance changes, making it unclear whether benefits or harms were observed. Without specification of which outcomes showed significant associations or their magnitudes, the practical importance of any findings cannot be assessed from this summary.
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Study details
- Design
- Observational
- Sample size
- —
- Duration
- 3 months
- Population
- Community-dwelling adults aged 65 years and older
- Primary outcome
- Changes in physical performance measured by Short Physical Performance Battery and Timed Up and Go test; frailty-related function
- Effect size
- —
- Significance
- Not reported
- Journal
- Universidad de Murcia
- Published
- Oct 8, 2026
Sources
Primary source
- Universidad de Murcia ↗Clinical trial
Recorded source passages
Abstract or registry material supplied for assessment; source version 1. This is not a claim of full-text review.
This quasi-experimental, non-randomized controlled evaluation examined whether participation in ELDERPLAY, a community-based programme combining Vivifrail-based multicomponent exercise with adapted traditional games, was associated with changes in physical performance and frailty-related function in community-dwelling adults aged 65 years and older
Participants were allocated to the intervention group or to a concurrent control group through voluntary enrolment and geographic matching, without randomization
The intervention consisted of 20 supervised group sessions, two per week over ten weeks
Physical performance was assessed with the Short Physical Performance Battery and the Timed Up and Go test at baseline, at week 5 and at week 10
Secondary exploratory outcomes included actigraphy-derived daily step count, heart rate and sleep parameters, recorded over seven consecutive days at a single intermediate assessment point, and sleep quality assessed with the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index
Because allocation was not randomized and the groups differed at baseline, the findings are associative and do not support causal inference
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