Characteristics of Adults With Neurologic Disability Recruited for Exercise Trials: A Secondary Analysis

This review examined demographic and clinical characteristics of participants from exercise trials in 3 neurologic disability conditions (multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, and traumatic brain injury) and compared these data with population-based statistics. The authors included 75 published st...

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Published inAdapted physical activity quarterly Vol. 35; no. 4; p. 476
Main Authors Lai, Byron, Cederberg, Katie, Vanderbom, Kerri A, Bickel, C Scott, Rimmer, James H, Motl, Robert W
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.10.2018
Subjects
Adult
Brain Injuries, Traumatic
Clinical Trials as Topic
Disabled Persons
Exercise Therapy
Humans
Multiple Sclerosis
Patient Selection
Spinal Cord Injuries
generalizability
knowledge translation
physical disabilities
physical activity
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Summary:This review examined demographic and clinical characteristics of participants from exercise trials in 3 neurologic disability conditions (multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, and traumatic brain injury) and compared these data with population-based statistics. The authors included 75 published studies from 2006 to 2016: 53 studies for multiple sclerosis (n = 2,034), 14 for spinal cord injury (n = 302), and 8 for traumatic brain injury (n = 272). Pooled data resembled some heterogeneous aspects of population data sets. However, many characteristics were not reported; samples were small and predominantly White, and 48.1% of the people screened were excluded. Thus, findings from these studies may not be translatable across the range of people with these three conditions, which warrant efforts to target the inclusion of underrepresented subgroups in future exercise trials.
ISSN:1543-2777
DOI:10.1123/apaq.2017-0109