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Increasing Physical Activity Among Medical Inpatients by Digital Nudging of Patients and Staff

NCT06983977 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 400

Last updated 2025-05-25

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Summary

Sedentary behaviour among medical inpatients is strongly associated with hospital-associated functional decline and poses a severe threat to patients' functional capacity and independency. High human and socioeconomic costs underline the urgency to find solutions to this world-wide problem.

Objective: This multicentre study, including a total of 400 patients from Copenhagen, Aalborg, Tórshavn, and Nuuk, will assess the effect of a digital intervention that aims to reduce sedentary behaviour and increase physical activity in medical inpatients.

Intervention: Digital feedback and nudging regarding the patients' physical activity levels to patients and healthcare staff Design: Stepped-wedge cluster randomised multicentre trial Primary outcome: Daily average time of patients' physical activity (minutes).

Conditions

  • Physical Activity
  • Inpatients
  • Digital Health

Interventions

OTHER

Measurement of physical activity

Measurement of physical activity by accelerometer

OTHER

Digital nudging

Digital feedback and nudging to participants (patients) and staff, based on participants' physical activity measurements, aiming to increase patients' physical activity and reduce sedentary time

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Bispebjerg Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Christian H Dall, Associate professor, PhD · Bispebjerg Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-05-19
Primary Completion
2026-06-30
Completion
2027-12-31

Countries

  • Denmark
  • Faroe Islands
  • Greenland

Study Locations

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