Fitness Resources for Fitness Resources for Persons Living with HIV/AIDSPersons Living with HIV/AIDS

Guilaine Boyce, Melanie Byland, Hassan El Masri, Stephanie Hui, Aliyah Jessa,

Katie Lightfoot, Katie Osborne, Duarte Rosario

Overview• Introductions

– Community Service Learning– Dr. Peter Centre– Concept of Health Promotion

• Our Project– Research– Interactions– Challenges and Solutions– Outcomes– Staff Appreciation Event– Grand Re-Opening

• Reflections

Community Service Learning

“a form of experiential education that integrates service in the community with academic

courses and/or extra-curricular programs”

Community Service Learning, UBC

The Dr. Peter CentreThe Dr. Peter Centre

Providing Comfort Care for People Providing Comfort Care for People Living with HIV/AIDSLiving with HIV/AIDS

Our Project

Health Promotion“The process of enabling people to increase

control over, and to improve, their health”-Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion (1986)

Pharmacy Meets Public Health http://www.pharmacymeetspublichealth.org/publichealthbackground_determinants.html

Research

• The Population- Preliminary

• Fitness– Structuring fitness programs

• Adaptations– Benefits of Exercises– Accommodations to population

Population at DPC• “The Dr. Peter Centre residents have reduced their acute hospital bed stays by

98%”• “The Dr. Peter Centre day program clients have reduced their acute hospital

bed stays by 55%”• DPC Participant Profile:

HIV/AIDS 100%Income Assistance 81%No fixed address and/or 69%Living in DTESAddictions 75%Mental Illness 60%Survivors of abuse 41%

Dr Peter Centre Fast Facts (2008)The Dr. Peter Diaries (2008) http://www.cbc.ca/drpeter/

Fitness as a key component of Health

Dialogue with Staff & Independent Research

Identification of key components of a comprehensive fitness program

Elements of Relaxation

Cognitive exercises (Mental Fitness)

Warm up & Cool Down

CardiovascularCore

Weight Training

Adaptations

• Adaptation of general fitness guidelines to fit the capabilities and needs of the population

• Examples:– Varying intensity levels– Appropriate language and easy to follow content

(Health Literacy)

Interactions

• Day Patients & Residents• Staff

Challenges & Solutions

• Population’s continuum of capacities• Time constraints• Multidisciplinary Team• Trying to make changes within an established

environment• Long term results?

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Fitness Centre Re-opening

Outcomes

• Material– Fitness Manual– Posters– Grand Re-opening

• Immaterial– Our Personal Reflections – What we have learned– How the experience has contributed to our class

as whole

Reflections: Group Themes• Monday

– Questioning... Disappointment?... Uncertainty... – Realizing constraints of situation– ‘Protected‘ – Direction established for tomorrow, beyond...

• Tuesday– Preparation of the worst...– Energy and excitement, yet hesitation– Satisfaction, accomplishment– Perceptions were challenged

• Wednesday

Reflections: Group Themes• Wednesday

– Accomplishment– Team dynamics– Feelings of acceptance, welcoming and gratitude from the DPC staff

• Grand Re-Opening – Feeling connected– Meaning and value of what we’ve

completed– Appreciation of Staff– Closure to experience

Aliyah

Duarte

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Guilaine

Hassan

Katie L.

Katie O.

Melanie

Stephanie

Thank you!Thank you!

This project would not have been possible without the efforts of:

Vladislava Maksimcev and The DPC StaffDr Jim Frankish

Margot Fryer and the UBC Learning Exchange Staff

Margot Bell and Tlell Elviss

References1. The Learning Exchange (2008). Retrieved on March 7th from 2. Community Service Learning (2008)3. The Broader Determinants of Health (2007). Pharmacy Meets Public

Health. Retrieved on March 7, 2008 from http://www.pharmacymeetspublichealth.org/publichealthbackground_determinants.html

4. Dr. Peter Centre Fast Facts (2008)5. Dr. Peter Diaries (1992). CBC Television: The Legacy of Dr. Peter.

Retrieved on March 7th, 2008 from http://www.cbc.ca/drpeter/6. Clock Character (2008). Discover School. Retrieved on March 7, 2008

from http://school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart/clip/clock.html