Increasing Physical Activity Among Medical Inpatients by Digital Nudging of Patients and Staff
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An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Measurement of physical activity, Digital nudging.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Physical Activity, Inpatients, Digital Health. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Denmark, Faroe Islands, Greenland
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Increasing Physical Activity Among Medical Inpatients by Digital Nudging of Patients and Staff - A Cluster Randomised Multicentre Study
Overview
Sedentary behaviour among medical inpatients is strongly associated with hospital-associated functional decline and poses a severe threat to patients' functional capacity and independency. High human and socioeconomic costs underline the urgency to find solutions to this world-wide problem. Objective: This multicentre study, including a total of 400 patients from Copenhagen, Aalborg, Tórshavn, and Nuuk, will assess the effect of a digital intervention that aims to reduce sedentary behaviour and increase physical activity in medical inpatients. Intervention: Digital feedback and nudging regarding the patients' physical activity levels to patients and healthcare staff Design: Stepped-wedge cluster randomised multicentre trial Primary outcome: Daily average time of patients' physical activity (minutes).
Interventions
- Other Measurement of physical activity
Measurement of physical activity by accelerometer - Other Digital nudging
Digital feedback and nudging to participants (patients) and staff, based on participants' physical activity measurements, aiming to increase patients' physical activity and reduce sedentary time
Primary outcome measures
- Daily average time of participants' physical activity (minutes) [Time frame: From enrollment to end of trial participation (maximum 7 days)]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Admitted to one of the participating wards
- Has understood and signed informed consent
- Reads and understands Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic or English
Exclusion criteria
- Has an expected hospitalisation less than 24 hours after potential recruitment
- Is not able to give informed consent to participate in the study
- Has allergy towards band aid
- Not able to (shortly) stand in an upright position even with maximal assistance
- There are contraindications for the patient to mobilise or be physically active due to unstabilized acute medical conditions, including, but not limited to, acute aortic dissection, -myocardial infarction, -pulmonary embolism, -sepsis.
- There are ethical concerns regarding the patients' participation in the study, including, but not limited to, the patient being:
- In the terminal phase of life
- In a crisis state regarding their disease/situation and deemed unfit for participation
To ensure medically responsible inclusion of patients, the project personnel will consult and confer with the treatment responsible medical doctor, or their delegate, before including a potential participant for the trial.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
Study locations
Denmark · 2 centers
- Bispebjerg Hospital — Copenhagen
- Aalborg University Hospital — Hobro
Faroe Islands · 1 center
- National Hospital — Tórshavn
Greenland · 1 center
- Queen Ingrids Hospital — Nuuk
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06983977 · VMK-2403916