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Prehabilitation of Veterans With Exercise and Nutrition

NCT04485611 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2025-08-22

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Summary

The goal of VA's RR\&D office is to maximize functional recovery. This proposal will allow the investigators to test an intervention that combines the fundamentals of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with state-of-the-art nutritional support and innovations in care such as telehealth and the use of activity trackers to optimize patients before high-risk surgery. This intervention has the potential to not only reduce complications and hospital readmissions, but also to maximize functional recovery and quality of life for thousands of Veterans undergoing high-risk surgery every year. Furthermore, the proposal is the first step in the design and implementation of prehabilitative services for Veterans living in rural areas and those with inadequate support or transportation.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Supervised aerobic + resistance training and nutritional support

The intervention will consist of individualized exercise training delivered remotely using VA telehealth technology, combined with nutritional support consisting of tailored nutritional advice, protein supplementation, multivitamin and vitamin D supplements\]\]. Adherence to the intervention will be enhanced by use of automated text messages and monitored using activity trackers.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Duke University

    collaborator OTHER

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Atilio Barbeito, MD · Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-05-27
Primary Completion
2024-03-29
Completion
2024-03-29

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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