[Effect of an exercise program targeting knee pain on medical costs of elderly community-dwelling adults].
[Nihon koshu eisei zasshi] Japanese journal of public health(2021)
摘要
Objectives The aim of this study was to examine the effect of an exercise program targeting knee pain on longitudinal medical costs (MC) of elderly community-dwelling adults.Methods A community-based health program using specific exercises for improving knee pain was held from January to February, 2015. Twenty-eight individuals participated in the program (intervention group) and seventy individuals were selected from the respondents of a health and lifestyle survey by matching age, sex, and baseline value of severity of knee pain as a control group. Twenty individuals from the intervention group and twenty-nine from the control group were included in the final analysis. The changes in MC from 2014 to 2018 were compared between the two groups using a linear mixed-effects model.Results The effect of the program on MC, estimated as a change from the baseline in 2014, showed a reduction of -5.6×10
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knee pain,medical cost,older community-dwelling adults,prevention for long-term care
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