Does resistance training make a difference to the quality of life or heart health for older adults compared to aerobic exercise? A systematic review protocol from The People's Review Description: Background
Systematic reviews bring together all the evidence on a health topic in an organised and careful way. The People's Review aims to help the public understand what systematic reviews are and why they matter by designing and conducting their own systematic review. The question chosen for The People’s Review is: Does resistance training make a difference to quality of life and/or heart health for older adults compared to aerobic exercise? This protocol outlines how we will carry out this review.
STARDIT ID: 0202511201231
Dates
State ongoing
Start 2025-11-12
Form updated 2025-12-16
Aims summarise all the available evidence that addresses the review question
support the public to make decisions about what type of exercise to engage in as they age
influence exercise guidelines, clinical practice and future research
Keywords Systematic review protocol
Older adults
aerobic exercise
Evidence synthesis
heart health
cardiac outcomes
individual
Éle Quinn (link)
ID: 0009-0008-3947-4525
Task: Project leader
Compensation: paid
individual
Patricia Logullo
Task: Project member
Compensation: volunteer
individual
Kevin Murray
Task: Project member
Compensation: volunteer
individual
K M Saif-Ur-Rahman
Task: Project member
Compensation: volunteer
individual
Charlene Young
Task: Project member
Compensation: honourarium
individual
Derek Stewart
Task: Project member
Compensation: honourarium
individual
Maureen Smith
Task: Project member
Compensation: honourarium
individual
Jeremy Holt
Task: Project member
Compensation: honourarium
individual
Shaun Treweek
Task: Project member
Compensation: volunteer
individual
Chris Noone
Task: Supervisor
Compensation: volunteer
individual
David Moher
Task: Supervisor
Compensation: volunteer
individual
Sinéad M. Hynes
Task: Project member
Compensation: volunteer
group of individuals
The People (unspecified)
Task: Project member
Compensation: volunteer
funding
(link)
Health Research Board (Ireland) (ESI-2021-001) and the HSC Research and Development Division of the Public Health Agency (Northern Ireland) through611 32 Evidence Synthesis Ireland and Cochrane Ireland
Funders were not involved in preparing the report
funding
(link)
College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Galway, Ireland, through Evidence Synthesis Ireland
Funders were not involved in preparing the report
Ethics approver
Start: 2023-06-22
University of Galway ID: 2023.06.012
Outputs and impacts
publication/report/document
Pre-print: Does resistance training make a difference to the quality of life or heart health for older adults compared to aerobic exercise? A systematic review protocol from The People's Review (link)
STARDIT report authors Jack Nunn (
link)
0000-0003-0316-3254
Created initial report (not all available information included)
Éle Quinn (
link)
0009-0008-3947-4525
e.quinn34@universityofgalway.ie
Updated and maintained the report
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