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Walking Exercise Sustainability Through Telehealth for Veterans With Lower-limb Amputation

NCT05412550 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 95

Last updated 2026-04-24

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Summary

Despite recent advances in physical rehabilitation, Veterans with lower-limb amputation have poor long-term outcomes, including severely limited functional capacity and high levels of disability. Such poor outcomes are compounded by a lack of exercise participation over time, even with use of lower-limb prostheses. There is a clear need to advance current rehabilitation strategies to better promote sustained exercise following lower-limb amputation. To address this need, the study will determine the potential of a walking exercise self-management program to achieve sustained exercise participation. The 18-month intervention is focused on helping Veterans reduce habitual sedentary behavior through a remote exercise behavior-change intervention that includes multiple clinical disciplines, individualized exercise self-management training, and peer support. This innovative approach shifts the conventional rehabilitation paradigm to specifically target life-long exercise sustainability and remove an underlying cause of disability for Veterans with lower-limb amputation.

Conditions

  • Lower-Limb Amputation

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Exercise self-management

Six walking exercise self-management telehealth sessions will focus on behavior change techniques and personalized action plans. Peer support groups will be held every three months, and will be focused on supporting participants in attaining sustained exercise. Text message prompts will focus on encouraging exercise and health self-management.

BEHAVIORAL

Attention control

The six individual telehealth sessions, six peer-group sessions, and text message prompts will focus on general health education. No prompts for exercise or health self-management will be given.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Cory L. Christiansen, PhD · Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center, Aurora, CO

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Max Age
89 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-11-01
Primary Completion
2026-10-31
Completion
2026-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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