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Progressive resistance strength training for improving physical function in older adults

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD002759.pub2Copy DOI
Database:
  1. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Version published:
  1. 08 July 2009see what's new
Type:
  1. Intervention
Stage:
  1. Review
Cochrane Editorial Group:
  1. Cochrane Bone, Joint and Muscle Trauma Group

Copyright:
  1. Copyright © 2010 The Cochrane Collaboration. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Authors

  • Chiung‐ju Liu

    Correspondence to: Department of Occupational Therapy, Indiana University at Indianapolis, Indianpolis, USA

    [email protected]

  • Nancy K Latham

    Health and Disabilty Research Institute, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, USA

Contributions of authors

For the first version of the review (completed 2002), Dr Nancy Latham, Dr Craig Anderson, Dr Derrick Bennett and Dr Caroline Stretton contributed to the development of the protocol, the analysis and interpretation of the data and the write‐up of the review. Dr Nancy Latham took the lead in conducting the analyses and writing the protocol and review. In addition, Dr Latham and Dr Stretton conducted the searches, identified the trials, conducted the quality assessments and extracted the data. Dr Bennett provided methodological and statistical guidance for the review. Dr Anderson served as the adjudicator when a consensus about data issues could not be reached between the two reviewers, and provided guidance about the methods and interpretation of the review.

The review was substantially updated in 2009 by Dr Chiung‐ju Liu and Dr Nancy Latham. Dr Liu took the lead in conducting the update, which included undertaking the searches, screening search results, organizing retrieval of papers, screening retrieved papers against inclusion criteria, appraising quality of papers, extracting data, contacting authors for additional information, entering data into RevMan, doing the analyses and writing up. The project was completed when Dr Liu was a post‐doctoral research fellow at the Health and Disability Research Institute at Boston University. Dr Latham assisted in identifying the trials, conducting the quality assessments, extracting the data, interpreting the results and writing the review.

Both Dr Chiung‐ju Liu and Dr Nancy Latham are guarantors for the review.

Sources of support

Internal sources

  • Health and Disability Research Institute, School of Public Health, Boston University, USA.

  • Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Inidana University at Indianapolis, USA.

External sources

  • NIDRR Post‐doctoral Fellowship, grant # H133P001, USA.

  • NIDRR Switzer Research Fellowship, grant #H133F060030, USA.

  • National Institute of Aging, grant # P30 AG031679, USA.

Declarations of interest

Dr. Latham is an author for two trials. The trials were rated independently by other reviewers in the first review.

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the editorial team of the Cochrane Bone, Joint and Muscle Trauma Group, particularly Lindsey Elstub, Lesley Gillespie, Joanne Elliott and Leeann Morton, for their assistance throughout the review process. In particular, thanks to Lesley and Joanne for searching the Cochrane registers and assistance with developing the search strategies. Thank you to Leeann and Lindsey for their advice and guidance about the procedures and content. We would also like to thank the Review Group's editors and the external referees, Prof John Campbell, Dr Keith Hill and Professor David Stott for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this review.

The reviewers would like to thank Craig Anderson, Derrick Bennett, and Caroline Stretton for their contribution for the first review. The reviewers also would like to thank the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDDR) for a post‐doctoral fellowship to the first author (H133P001) through Boston University and Switzer research fellowship (H133F060030) and National Institute of Aging (P30 AG031679) to the second author for supporting the review update. In addition, the second author received support for this review through a Pepper Center Trainee award from Boston Pepper Center funded by the National Institute of Aging (1P30Ag031679‐01).

Version history

Published

Title

Stage

Authors

Version

2009 Jul 08

Progressive resistance strength training for improving physical function in older adults

Review

Chiung‐ju Liu, Nancy K Latham

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD002759.pub2

2003 Apr 22

Progressive resistance strength training for physical disability in older people

Review

Nancy K Latham, Craig S Anderson, Derrick A Bennett, Caroline Stretton

https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD002759

Notes

Substantial updates of reviews such as this one often take a considerable time to prepare and then take through the editorial process. They can therefore seem 'out of date' before publication, particularly in research active areas. However, although an updated search made in May 2008 revealed nine more potentially eligible trials (which await assessment, pending the next update), it is unlikely that the review's main findings will be substantively changed by these. [Comment by Helen Handoll, Co‐ordinating Editor, May 2009]

PICOs

Population
Intervention
Comparison
Outcome

The PICO model is widely used and taught in evidence-based health care as a strategy for formulating questions and search strategies and for characterizing clinical studies or meta-analyses. PICO stands for four different potential components of a clinical question: Patient, Population or Problem; Intervention; Comparison; Outcome.

See more on using PICO in the Cochrane Handbook.