A Qualitative Investigation of CLEAT Participants - Trial NCT05937542

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Primary Outcome

Participant Experiences

Summary

As the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) waiting list soars above seven million
 people, with treatment wait times over two years, older people with chronic conditions face
 worsening symptoms, increased use of medications, more complicated surgeries with slower
 recovery, reduced quality of life, and loss of independence. As part of its plans to tackle
 this crisis, the NHS promotes exercise as a miracle cure for arresting the progress of
 disease and helping disease management and recovery. However, current plans promoting
 individual, home-based exercise, as well as on-site hospital-based programs of delivery, have
 met with only limited success, and face problems of decreased space, capacity, clinician
 time, as well as lack of knowledge and expertise with regard to effective behavior change. We
 have developed a community-based group exercise programme for older people with hip
 osteoarthritis. This community-based group exercise programme has successfully helped those
 with hip osteoarthritis (3.5 million over 45s in the UK) reduce pain and need for medication,
 as well as avoiding surgery, and has formed part of an NIHR trial examining the use of
 exercise and education versus standard physiotherapy care for the treatment of hip
 osteoarthritis. In order to better understand the mechanisms of action of this programme, the
 present study will examine, via focus groups interviews, the experiences of participants who
 have undertaken the exercise and education programme. The data generated from the focus
 groups will help to elucidate what works within the programme and will help inform future
 development of resources to support health professionals in providing exercise rehabilitation
 for older people with chronic conditions.

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