Exercise Strategies for Bedside Cases During Hospitalization

Summary

Patients after hospital admission would experience the functional decline, so-called Hospital-Associated Disability. This condition could not only impact the patient health function but pose a burden on the family, even more consuming of medical resource in the country. Therefore, in addition to routine rehabilitation program, various bedside exercise programs are provided as an adjunct therapy to prevent functional declination and improve physical mobility for a patient after hospital admission. The aims of the study are conducted to compare the effect of three various bedside exercise programs (exercise based on watching video, oral education and paper sheet) on physical mobility among the hospitalized patients.

This is single-blind randomized control study and patients recruited from Tzu-Chi medical center in eastern Taiwan are ranged from 30 to 90 years old. All participants are randomly assigned to three groups (watching video, oral education and paper sheet). Patients in watching video group are provided with theirs 3 to 5 poor physical performance video recorded on the tablet or mobile phone during the rehabilitation program. The other two groups are provided oral education and paper sheet exercise program, respectively. All three groups patients conduct their bedside exercise programs when they return their ward.

Physical performance tests are evaluated before the intervention and one or two days before discharge by a physical therapist blinded the groups of patient .

Conditions

• Disability Physical
• Hospitalization

Interventions

OTHER

video watching

Watching video In this group, when the patient conducts their rehabilitation exercise, the therapist would record the poor physical movement pattern from his/her performance by using the mobile phone or tablet. The patients will be provided with watching video exercise, containing 3-5 items of "their poor physical performance", selected by the therapist as a feedback to let the patient practice when they return their bedside ward after their rehabilitation time. The content of video-watching exercise program will be changed or modified once weekly as the patient improve the physical movement performance.

OTHER

paper group

In the paper sheet group, the therapist will give three to five poor movement patterns, selected from the patient conducting their rehabilitation program, to practice when returning bedside ward.

OTHER

oral education group

the patient only receives the oral exercise education about how to improve their physical performance during their hospital stay.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Jia-Ching Chen · Department of physical therapy, Tzu Chi University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

30 Years

Max Age

90 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2022-03-15

Primary Completion

2023-12-31

Completion

2023-12-31

Countries

• Taiwan

Study Locations