Brief Intense Stair Climbing Improved Quality of

Life of Hypertensive Middle-Aged Men Better than

Brisk Walking
Beatrice P. Salgado, Ivy Dianne A. Adrales, Jaicy M. Valliara
College of Physical Therapy – Our Lady of Fatima University Valenzuela Campus

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

TRENDS
Hypertension Residence (p=0.041)
The worldwide prevalence of hypertension was 1.39 billion Marital status (p=0.001_
Educational level (p=0.001)
individuals, representing 31% of all adults (American Society of DM (p=0.004)
Hypertension, 2016) Heart disease (p=0.000) Quality of life
Medication intake (p=0.041)
Age (r=-0.756; p=0.000)
PROBLEMS BMI (r=-0.412;
Blood pressure, organ damage, comorbidities, and treatment p=0.046)
negatively affect quality of life (QOL)
Figure 2 – Correlation of prognosticators of hypertension and QOL
ISSUES
Effect of brief intense stair climbing and correlation of o Chi-square correlation revealed a significant correlation
hypertension among middle-aged men between QOL and residence (p=0.041), marital status
(p=0.001), educational level (p=0.001), DM (p=0.004), heart
SOLUTIONS disease (p=0.000), medication intake (p=0.041). All other
Evaluate the effect of brief intense stair climbing on QOL on factors showed statistically insignificant correlation.
hypertensive middle-aged men o Pearson correlation showed a significant high negative
correlation between QOL and age (r=-0.756; p=0.000), and
moderate negative correlation between QOL and BMI (r=-0.412;
p=0.046).
PROGNOSTICATORS DEPENDENT INDEPENDENT
OF HYPERTENSION VARIABLE VARIABLE
Table 1: The Effect of Brief Intense Stair Climbing on the QOL of Hypertensive
Age Middle-Aged Men
Sex EG CG
Height Week P value
(n=12) (n=12)
Weight
Waist circumference Pretest 54.17 ± 5.65 46.50 ± 3.56 0.002
Body mass index
Week 1 58.50 ± 3.58 53.58 ± 3.78 0.014
Residence
Marital status Week 2 61.75 ± 7.31 50.75 ± 4.16 0.000
Employment status
Week 3 65.33 ± 6.33 51.25 ± 2.22 0.000
Occupation
Educational level Week 4 65.08 ± 4.93 52.75 ± 2.60 0.000
Monthly income Ho1 Ho2 Mean Difference 10.91 ± 4.68 6.25 ± 3.89
Family history of Quality of life Brief intense stair
hypertension R E climbing p value 0.002 0.002
BP status (SBP, DBP)
Lifestyle factors
(smoking history, alcohol o Brief intense stair climbing is better than brisk walking.
consumption, physical o Subject who received the brief intense stair climbing exercise
activity, diet) exhibited greater improvement in quality of life than those who
Comorbidities received the brisk walking exercise.
(DM, HD) o The Wilson and Cleary conceptual model focused on
Medication intake relationships among aspects of health. This model theorized that
Psychological stress
physiological variables influence symptom status, symptom status
Sleep duration
influences functional health, functional health influences general
Frequency of BP
measurement health perceptions, and general health perceptions influences
Endurance overall quality of life (Sousa & Kwok, 2006).
o High intensity training (HIT) has been considered to show more
beneficial physiological results compared to continuous
moderate-intensity training (CMT). Moreover, HIT was also more
Figure 1 – Research Simulacrum
effective than CMT for improvements in skeletal muscle
metabolic adaptations, body composition, overall functioning of
body’s vascularity, as well as submaximal aerobic capacity,
including VO2 at respiratory compensation point, tolerance time
METHODOLOGY to reach anaerobic threshold and tolerance time to reach
respiratory compensation point. Similarly, exercising under the
DESIGN
moderate intensity training protocol has also shown the following
Quantitative, multiple times series quasi-experimental
benefits such as improved SI, reduced blood lipids, reduced body
research design
fat percentage, and improved cardiovascular fitness (Gibala,
Little, Macdonald, & Hawley, 2012; Ciolac, Bocchi, Greve, &
SAMPLE
Guimaraes, 2011).
n = 24 | Two communities in Valenzuela City
Nonprobability purposive sampling
Incidence rate = 16.2% CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
95% confidence interval plus a 10% attrition rate
o Hypertensive middle-aged men who are older and have higher BMI
OUTCOME MEASURE tends to have poorer QOL.
WHOQOL-BREF FIL OP o There is a statistically significant association between QOL and
residence, marital status, educational level, DM, heart disease,
DATA GATHERING and medication intake.
Informed consent à Intervention à Data Tabulation à o Brief intense stair climbing can improve QOL better than brisk
Analysis walking.
o Further studies must be conducted to validate the effect of brief
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS intense stair climbing on QOL.
Descriptive Statistics: Mean and SD, median, and mode o Whether using a true experimental research design, larger
Correlational Statistics: Chi Square, Spearman’s rho, and sample sizes, identifying whether the exercise conducted on
Pearson either a group or individual setting, or an increase or
Inferential Statistics: t-test (p<0.05 | IBM SPSS Statistics decrease in the exercise intensity, frequency, or duration can
1.0.0.800) contribute to an improvement in the QOL.
o By evaluating a different outcome measure besides QOL, and
by performing the exercise on a different population

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