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. 2022 Sep 7;2022(9):CD001704. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD001704.pub5

Suwanpasu 2014.

Study characteristics
Methods Randomised controlled trial
Participants King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
Period of study: January 2012 to February 2013
46 participants
Inclusion: 60 to 93 years of age, diagnosed with femoral neck fracture, intertrochanteric fracture or subtrochanteric fracture
Exclusion: nil
Age: mean (SD) 75.2 (8.4)
% male: 34
Number lost to follow‐up:
Interventions 1. Intervention: physical activity‐enhancing programme, based on Resnick's self‐efficacy model (Resnick 2009). Four phases of physical training and efficacy‐based intervention, covering 5 sessions. Phases: assessment, preparation, practicing and evaluation. Face‐to‐face contact and 5 telephone calls during 7 weeks post‐surgery.
2. Control: standard care (physical activity for hip fracture booklet)
Outcomes 6 weeks after discharge
International Physical Activity Questionnaire
Notes Contributed no outcomes to this review
Funding: Thai Red Cross Society and King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital
Conflict of interest: nil
Risk of bias
Bias Authors' judgement Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias) Low risk Quote: "We used a simple block randomization technique with a coin flip to assign subjects"
Allocation concealment (selection bias) Unclear risk Allocation concealment not specified
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias)
All outcomes Unclear risk Therapists conducting the intervention and participants were not blinded to the group assignment. Impact of non‐blinding is unclear
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias)
Observer‐reported outcomes, some judgement High risk Blinding not specified; outcome was self‐reported
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
Observer‐reported outcomes, some judgement Low risk Less than 20% of data missing
Selective reporting (reporting bias) Unclear risk No protocol or trial registry. Only 1 outcome reported in methods and results
Free from baseline imbalance bias? Unclear risk Trend toward intervention group being older and having greater physical activity at baseline (between group difference, P = 0.06 for both). Few functional or health characteristics at baseline reported (mental test and physical activity only)
Free from performance bias due to non‐trial interventions? High risk Social contact in intervention arm likely to confound any effect. An appropriate comparator would have been social home visits but no physical intervention.