Increasing Physical Activity Among Medical Inpatients by Digital Nudging of Patients and Staff
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorBispebjerg Hospital
About this trial
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).
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Admitted to one of the participating wards
Has understood and signed informed consent
Reads and understands Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic or English
Disqualifiers
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
Trial design
Design model
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Measurement of physical activity
Other interventionMeasurement of physical activity by accelerometer
Digital nudging
Other interventionDigital feedback and nudging to participants (patients) and staff, based on participants' physical activity measurements, aiming to increase patients' physical activity and reduce sedentary time
Treatment groups
400 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsGroup A: ControlOther 1 intervention
Group B: InterventionExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Daily average time of participants' physical activity (minutes)
Time frame
From enrollment to end of trial participation (maximum 7 days)Sponsors and contacts
Click on the lead sponsor to view all of their trials.
Source ClinicalTrials.gov