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Efficacy of Tai Chi Training on Insomnia in Older Adults

NCT02260843 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 320

Last updated 2020-07-22

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Summary

Elderly insomnia is a serious public health problem. Current conventional approaches for treating insomnia are not suitable or effective in elderly population. It has been previously demonstrated that Tai Chi has definite advantages to be developed as self-help therapy in older adults and has been preliminarily demonstrated to improve sleep in older people. This project aims to evaluate the efficacy of Tai Chi training on alleviating chronic insomnia in older adults.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Generic Fitness

Subjects in this group will receive three fitness lessons in a week while each session last for 1 hour for 12 weeks

OTHER

Tai Chi Intervention

Subjects in this group will receive three tai chi lessons in a week while each session last for 1 hour for 12 weeks

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Food and Health Bureau, Hong Kong

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • The University of Hong Kong

    collaborator OTHER

  • Chinese University of Hong Kong

    collaborator OTHER

  • Angus Yu

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Parco MF Siu, PHD · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-08-31
Primary Completion
2017-02-28
Completion
2018-08-31

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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