GetUp&Go A Remote Program to Increase Physical Activity in Adults With Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

What this Trial Is About

Researchers are evaluating GetUp&Go, a program designed to increase physical activity in adults who are at least six months past a moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury TBI. This randomized controlled trial aims to determine whether participants who start the 10-week GetUp&Go program immediately show greater increases in physical activity and improvements in mental and physical health compared to those placed on a waitlist. The study also explores whether continued use of the programs mobile health app, RehaBot, helps maintain physical activity gains, and examines how individual participant characteristics affect treatment response. The study involves a 10-week intervention where participants receive personalized physical activity plans supported by one-on-one sessions with a therapist twice weekly via videoconference, plus additional check-ins. After this phase, all participants enter a 10-week follow-up where they are randomly assigned to either continue using the RehaBot app without therapist contact or stop using it. Participants on the waitlist initially have no treatment but receive the full program after their wait period. Participants will take part in baseline and follow-up assessments measuring physical activity objectively through accelerometers, and self-reported measures including fatigue, sleep quality, pain, emotional function, and health-related quality of life. Researchers monitor sedentary behavior and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity levels at multiple timepoints to evaluate the programs effects. The total study timeline includes the initial 10-week treatment or waitlist phase and a 10-week follow-up phase, with evaluations after each period.

GetUp&Go: A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Intervention to Enhance Physical Activity After TBI