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Strength-based Tailored-Exercise Program at Home for Geriatric Patients

NCT06820021 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 256

Last updated 2026-04-06

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Summary

This study focuses on the "Strength-based Tailored-Exercise Program at Home (STEP@Home)" aimed at improving health outcomes for geriatric patients at risk of hospitalization-associated functional decline. It is a sequential mixed-method study that combines quantitative and qualitative approaches.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Strength-based Tailored-Exercise Program at Home (STEP@Home)

The 20-week STEP@Home is a multi-component exercise training program designed to recondition the functional status of older adults in the post-discharge period and to develop long-term exercise engagement. The content is developed based on the recommendations from a scope review and the Vivifrail exercise guideline on home-based exercise for older adults , with expert input from the research team including geriatricians in frailty management, exercise physiologist, nursing academicians in aged care research. Three design characteristics, including an empowerment approach (Funnell \& Anderson, 2004), lifestyle-integrated functional exercises (Weber et al., 2018), and an optimized tele-platform, are incorporated into the exercise program to enhance such therapeutic benefit.

OTHER

Physical activity education

The control group will receive a general education delivered by the RA during the first home visit, including general post-discharge knowledge related to frailty, nutrition, mental health, and sleep hygiene, all information are publicly accessible no explicit information related to exercise or physical activity will be included. Five monthly telephone calls will be made to record the information related to the general health of the client at week 4th , 8th, 12th ,16th, and 20th. The RA will make home visit for data collection at 12th, 20th and 32nd week endpoints. The RA will also review the post-discharge planning of the client and record information about referral to any social and health care service. The controls will receive a HK$50 supermarket coupon as incentive, and the same will be applied to the intervention group.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Doris Sau Fung YU, PhD · The University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-05-23
Primary Completion
2028-03-01
Completion
2030-03-01

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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