Whole home exercise intervention for depression in older care home residents (the OPERA study): a process evaluation

Table 2 Number of exercise groups, total attendances and reasons for non-attendance

Category	Measure	Total study participants	Home populations^a
Residents (all)	n	494	1,439
Residents eligible to attend groups^b	n (%)	478 (97)	1,256 (87)
Number of groups delivered	n	3,191	3,191
Number of groups available^c	n	31,330	65,196
Total attendances^d	n (%)	16,986 (54)	31,705 (49)
Average attendance	n	5.3	9.94
Groups attended:
No groups	n (%)	43 (9)	187 (15)
51 or more^e	n (%)	173 (36)	282 (22)
Reasons for non-attendance:
Out	n (%)	372 (1)	1,449 (1)
In hospital	n (%)	719 (2)	1,656 (3)
Unwell	n (%)	1,670 (5)	3,167 (5)
Visitors	n (%)	369 (1)	765 (1)
Unwilling	n (%)	8,339 (27)	20,269 (31)
Other	n (%)	2,865 (9)	6,185 (9)

^aTotal home population including study participants and non-study participants.
^bEligible residents are those assessed as able to participate in the group exercise session (by the physiotherapist).
^cBased on the number of groups eligible residents could have attended.
^dTotal number of person attendances at the available groups.
^ePersons attending at least 51 groups (1 group per week or more during the lifetime of the trial).

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