Actively Recruiting

Phase Not Applicable
Age: 18Years +
All Genders
NCT06983977

Increasing Physical Activity Among Medical Inpatients by Digital Nudging of Patients and Staff

Led by Bispebjerg Hospital · Updated on 2025-05-25

400

Participants Needed

4

Research Sites

132 weeks

Total Duration

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AI-Summary

What this Trial Is About

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).

CONDITIONS

Official Title

Increasing Physical Activity Among Medical Inpatients by Digital Nudging of Patients and Staff

Who Can Participate

Age: 18Years +
All Genders

Eligibility Criteria

Eligible

You may qualify if you...

  • Admitted to one of the participating wards
  • Has understood and signed informed consent
  • Reads and understands Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic or English
Not Eligible

You will not qualify if you...

  • Expected hospital stay less than 24 hours after potential recruitment
  • Unable to give informed consent
  • Allergy to band aid
  • Unable to stand upright briefly, even with maximum assistance
  • Contraindications to mobilization due to unstable acute medical conditions such as acute aortic dissection, myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolism, or sepsis
  • Ethical concerns, including being in the terminal phase of life or in crisis and unfit for participation

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Trial Site Locations

Total: 4 locations

1

Bispebjerg Hospital

Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

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2

Aalborg University Hospital

Hobro, North Denmark, Denmark

Actively Recruiting

3

National Hospital

Tórshavn, Faroe Islands

Actively Recruiting

4

Queen Ingrids Hospital

Nuuk, Greenland

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Research Team

D

Durita V Gunnarsson, PhD student, MSc.

CONTACT

How is the study designed?

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Masking

SINGLE

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Model

PARALLEL

Primary Purpose

TREATMENT

Number of Arms

2

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