Effects of Tai Chi therapy on body mass index and physical index of intellectual disability
| Autor: | Nam‐Hyun Cha, Youngmi Cho, Ga‐Eul Jeon, Sohyune R. Sok |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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030506 rehabilitation medicine.medical_specialty Index (economics) Body Mass Index 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Intervention (counseling) Intellectual Disability Intellectual disability Republic of Korea medicine Humans Longitudinal Studies Aged Research and Theory Descriptive statistics business.industry 030229 sport sciences medicine.disease Obesity Test (assessment) Case-Control Studies Physical therapy Quality of Life Program development Female Tai Ji 0305 other medical science business Body mass index |
| Zdroj: | Japan journal of nursing science : JJNSREFERENCES. 17(2) |
| ISSN: | 1742-7924 |
| Popis: | AIM Continuous program development and application are necessary in order to manage the health and address the problems of secondary metabolic disorders for people with intellectual disabilities. This study examines the effects of Tai Chi therapy on body mass index (BMI) and physical index among people with intellectual disabilities. METHODS A quasi-experimental study using a pretest-post-test control group, non-synchronized design was employed. Samples were in total 104 people with intellectual disabilities (experimental: n = 67, control: n = 37) in two facilities in South Korea. They were randomly allocated using a coin toss into the two groups. Tai Chi therapy as an experimental intervention was the Sun style Tai Chi exercise, which consists of the warm-up (5 min), main exercise (45 min), and finishing (meditation, 10 min). Tai Chi therapy was conducted twice a week for a total of 40 sessions for 5 months (1 hour each) by one professional instructor. Measures were general characteristics of study participants, BMI as degree of obesity, and physical index. Data were analyzed using the SPSS 21.0 program (descriptive statistics, χ2 test, independent t test). A P value of less than .05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS There were statistically significant differences on fasting blood glucose (t = 4.351, P |
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