TY - JOUR AU - Sengarsai, Pattama AU - Charonpongsuntorn, Chanchai AU - Muntham, Dittapol PY - 2022/05/18 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Effect of Low Impact Aerobic Exercise on Fear of Falling, Balance and Health of Quality of Life in Thai Older People JF - Journal of Preventive Medicine Association of Thailand JA - JPMAT VL - 12 IS - 1 SE - Research Article DO - UR - https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JPMAT/article/view/254803 SP - 14-23 AB - <p>Aging result in physiology change of body especially musculoskeletal system, because of falling and balance problem. Falling in elderly may deteriorate quality of life. Exercise is the effective method to promote health and reduce risk of falling. Low impact aerobic exercise convenient to elderly and improve strengthening, flexibility, and balance. However, there is no research study of correlation between low impact aerobic exercise and fall-risk elderly. The purpose of this study is analysis of correlation of low impact aerobic exercise and balance, fear of falling scale and quality of life. Experimental study compare score before and after complete exercise program at 12 weeks by using tool as The Falls Efficacy Scale International Thai version (Thai-FES-I), Balance scale (Berg-balance scale) and Quality of life questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L). Data were Analyzed for compare mean score before and after exercise program by using pair T-test.</p><p>          Population in this study was 46. All of them were female. Mean age = 62.45±3.51 years and mean BMI = 24.74±3.69. Primary objective was correlation of low impact aerobic exercise and balance, fear of falling scale and quality of life. Results shown that improve scoring including decrease fear of falling scale, increase balance scale and increase quality of life questionnaire after completion of exercise program with statistically significant (P-value = &lt;0.001, 0.027 and 0.013) respectively. Therefore, low impact aerobic exercise for elderly may be one way of exercise that improve balance, fear of falling and quality of life</p> ER -