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

NCT06983977 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: VMK-2403916
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 400
• Locations: 3 countries
• Sites: 4

Brief Summary

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

Physical Activity; Inpatients; Digital Health

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Daily average time of participants' physical activity (minutes)

  From enrollment to end of trial participation (maximum 7 days)

Study Arms (2)

Control

OTHER

Measurement of physical activity

Other: Measurement of physical activity

Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Digital feedback and nudging to participant and staff regarding participants' physical activity levels

Other: Digital nudging

Interventions

Measurement of physical activity OTHER

Measurement of physical activity by accelerometer

Control

Digital nudging OTHER

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

Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Admitted to one of the participating wards
• Has understood and signed informed consent
• Reads and understands Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic or English

You may not qualify if:

• 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

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Bispebjerg Hospital: lead

Study Sites (4)

Bispebjerg Hospital

Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

RECRUITING

Aalborg University Hospital

Hobro, North Denmark, Denmark

RECRUITING

National Hospital

Tórshavn, Faroe Islands

RECRUITING

Queen Ingrids Hospital

Nuuk, Greenland

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Motor Activity

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Christian H Dall, Associate professor, PhD

  Bispebjerg Hospital

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Durita V Gunnarsson, PhD student, MSc.

CONTACT

+45 26472857; durita.videroe.gunnarsson@regionh.dk

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Associate professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 14, 2025
• First Posted: May 22, 2025
• Study Start: May 19, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): June 1, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 1, 2027
• Last Updated: May 25, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

DK (2); FA (1); GR (1)