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Background: Older adults who engage in arranged residential video games have the potential to gain health benefits such as increase in physical activity beyond purposeful movement with movement-based games. Methods: A Nintendo Wii video gaming system was implemented for six-weeks as a physical activity intervention with long-term care residents to determine the impact on exercise benefits/barriers, self-efficacy for exercise, and physical activity levels. Results: Paired t-tests revealed improvement in exercise benefits/barriers, self-efficacy for exercise, and physical activity levels, albeit none with statistical significance (all p > .05). Conclusions: The use of the Nintendo Wii as an intervention to enhance physical activity for older adults in nursing home residents should be considered for use over a longer duration of time with older adults.

Author

Tomika Williams; Laurie Kennedy-Malone; Julie Thompson; Emily Coates Monge

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2022

Language

EN