Self-Perceived Health and Sleep Quality of Community Older Adults after Acupunch Exercises

Healthy Beat Acupunch exercise program: Validation and feasibility study for older adults with reduced physical capacity or probable sarcopenia

“…Importantly, improvement in participants' gait speed was found post-exercise intervention, which is congruent with participants' self-reported health improvement upon their completion of the HBA program. The outcomes of our feasibility study are in line with the results from a preliminary feasibility study of community older adults [12][13][14] where positive health outcomes were reported. Overall, there appears to be preliminary evidence to suggest support for the HBA program to improve gait speed of older adults, particularly those with reduced physical capacity and probable sarcopenia or from a western culture.…”

“…The HBA program was reported to be simple, safe, helpful, and suitable for older adults in a feasibility study by Tsai et al [12]. To date, the single Taiwanese study on the HBA program revealed positive effects on the health of community dwelling older adults where improvements were found in functional fitness and cardiopulmonary function [13] as well as self-perceived sleep quality, daytime dysfunction, and physical and mental health [14]. Although preliminary research has identified benefits of acupunch in promoting blood circulation and improving chronic illnesses and health problems caused by prolonged sedentary behaviours often seen in Chinese older adults, there is limited to no evidence-based research to support its effects, especially for older adults with reduced capacity (e.g.…”

Práticas de higiene do sono em idosos: Uma revisão sistemática / Sleep hygiene practices in the elderly: A systematic review

“…O programa de intervenção do sono, composta de compressão do sono, controle de estímulos e higiene do sono, em comparação ao grupo controle, verificou que, embora o grupo intervenção tenha apresentado melhora significativa na eficiência do sono avaliado por actigrafia quanto a parâmetros objetivos do sono, não demonstrou diferenças significativas em relação aos parâmetros subjetivos auto-relatados no PSQI-BR global em comparação ao controle. No estudo que avaliou o programa de exercícios Healthy Beat Acupunch foi evidenciado que este programa apresentou diferença significativa no escore global PSQI-BR com o tempo, com melhora após 12 meses de seguimento, sem diferenças significativas ao término da intervenção de 6 meses, em comparação ao grupo controle, que manteve as atividades diárias usuais (HSIAO et al, 2018;MARTIN et al, 2017).…”

Benefits of Community-Based Approaches in Assessing and Addressing Sleep Health and Sleep-Related Cardiovascular Disease Risk: a Precision and Personalized Population Health Approach

“…For example, Black and colleagues (2015) found that a mindfulness mediation exercise successfully improved sleep quality among older adults with sleep disturbances [41]. Similarly, other community-based programs use music, pilates training [42], acupuncture [43], and acupressure [44] to improve sleep among the elderly. These findings indicate that communal and activity-based interventions are successful strategies for improving sleep health among the elderly.…”