Long-term care residents? acceptance of a standing intervention: A qualitative intrinsic case study

Older adults in long-term care are sedentary. Standing is recommended to reduce sedentary time, but there is limited research on long-term care residents' acceptability of standing interventions. The acceptability of the Stand If You Can (SIYC) randomized clinical trial among long-term care residents was explored using a single intrinsic qualitative case study design. The five month intervention consisted of supervised 100 min standing sessions per week. Participants completed post-intervention interviews, which were analyzed using the Thematic Framework Analysis through the lens of an acceptability framework. The 10 participants (7 female), age 73 to 102 years, stood a median of 53% of the intervention offered time (range 20%-94%). The participants reported acceptability in many aspects of the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability. Standing is a simple intervention to decrease sedentary time and seems to be accepted among long-term care resi-dents when burden is not perceived as too high.(c) 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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Older adults in long-term care are often sedentary. A randomized clinical trial was conducted to explore the acceptability of a standing intervention called Stand If You Can (SIYC) among long-term care residents. The participants stood for a median of 53% of the offered intervention time and reported acceptability in various aspects. Standing is a simple and accepted intervention to reduce sedentary behavior in long-term care residents, as long as the burden is not perceived as too high.