Physical Activity Coaching in Patients with Post-COVID-19

Summary

This randomized clinical trial aims to compare the effects of a 12-week behavioral physical activity intervention (i.e., physical activity coaching) with usual care (i.e., World Health Organization recommendations for being physically active) in patients with post-COVID-19 (i.e., patients who suffered from COVID-19 at any degree of severity in acute phase and experience symptoms for at least three months after discharge).

This study aims to answer the following question:

1\) Which are the effects of a physical activity coaching intervention compared with usual care in patients post-COVID-19 in the short-, middle- and long-term?

Conditions

• Post-COVID-19 Syndrome

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Self-monitoring

pedometer/activity band provided to each participant

BEHAVIORAL

Goal setting and review

Goal setting and review (weekly: +15% of the previous week's average daily steps or walking time, or +1000 steps/day or +10 minutes walking - to be specified)

BEHAVIORAL

Education

Educational sessions (face-to-face: providing a manual/explanatory brochure of the intervention; remote: addressing symptom pathophysiology, symptom management, among other topics)

BEHAVIORAL

Feedback

Daily or weekly feedback for patients (emotional/social support)

BEHAVIORAL

Contact

Contact with patients (face-to-face: for assessments; on remote: 1 -messages: for therapists' daily/weekly feedback or patient reports; 2 - calls: to adjust weekly goals or address doubts or issues)

BEHAVIORAL

Exercise

Exercise based on patient preference, explaining how to identify moderate intensity (HRmax=64-76%, Borg 3-6) or vigorous intensity (HRmax=77-95%; Borg 7-8) and monitoring safety parameters (StO2\>88%, HRmax\<96%, Borg\<9)

BEHAVIORAL

Report

Daily or weekly reporting for therapists (messages)

BEHAVIORAL

Social support

Support meetings (in-person), parallel to educational sessions

BEHAVIORAL

Group activities

Group activities (e.g., walking on familiar routes - parks, monumental areas, etc.)

BEHAVIORAL

World Health Organization recommendations for being physically active

World Health Organization's recommendations to maintain physical activity levels (i.e., 150-300 minutes/week of moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity; a weekly average of 10,000 steps/day or 100-120 minutes walking, which implies maintaining a pace of 100 steps/minute - corresponding to the average cadence across different age and gender groups).

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Colegio Profesional de Fisioterapeutas de la Comunidad de Madrid

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Alcala

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• María José Yuste Sánchez, PT, Ph.D. · University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2024-04-17

Primary Completion

2025-01-31

Completion

2027-12-31

Countries

• Spain

Study Locations