The aim of this project is to evaluate whether use of wearable tech increases levels of physical activity in patients participating in inpatient rehabilitation for chronic pain.
Chronic pain is a vast problem with profound consequences for individuals and societies. Exercise and physical activity is an important part of the treatment for chronic pain. Use of wearable tech might be a way to help facilitate physical activity in patients with chronic pain. Here it will be evaluated whether use of wearable tech giving feedback about the user's activity level increases physical activity in patients participating in inpatient rehabilitation for chronic pain. The control group will be wearing the same wearable tech as the intervention group, but they will not receive any feedback about their activity level. The feedback application will give participants in the intervention group information about the number of PAI they earn each week. PAI is short for personal activity Intelligence. You earn PAI points every time your heart rate increases: The higher heart rate, the faster you earn PAI. Previous research have shown that those who achieve 100 PAI or more every week over time live for an average of more than eight years longer than others. During the study all participants will take part in a traditional inpatient rehabilitation program. The program consist of two periods at the rehabilitation center with two weeks at home in-between. The study will take place during the two periods at the senter and the period at home. Time spent on physical activity and number of earned PAI's will be counted during the period at home.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
44
An armwrist device measuring physical activity level. The user will receive information about their physical activity level through their smartphone.
An armwrist device measuring physical activity level, no reporting back to the user.
traditional inpatient rehabilitation program.
Unicare Helsefort
Rissa, Norway
Activity level
Time spent in moderate to vigorous physical activity (minutes per day)
Time frame: 2 weeks (time period at home between two stays at the rehabilitation center)
Number of PAIs
mean number of Personal Activity Intelligence (PAI) points achieved per week
Time frame: 2 weeks (time period at home between two stays at the rehabilitation center)
Percentage achieving 100 PAIs per week
Personal Activity Intelligence (PAI)
Time frame: 2 weeks (time period at home between two stays at the rehabilitation center)
oxygen uptake
submaximal oxygen uptake measured by the Åstrand bicycle test (described in Textbook of work physiology by Astrand from 1986)
Time frame: 6 weeks (from inclusion to end of rehabilitation program)
Anxiety and depression symptoms
HSCL-25 questionnaire
Time frame: 6 weeks (from inclusion to end of rehabilitation program)
Average pain
Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). VAS is a straight horizontal line where the ends are defined as the extreme limits from the left (0-no pain) to the right (100-worst imaginable pain). The patient is asked to mark his pain level on the line between the two endpoints. The distance between 'no pain at all' and the mark then defines the subject's pain.
Time frame: 6 weeks (from inclusion to end of rehabilitation program)
Health related quality of life
EQ5D questionnaire
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Time frame: 6 weeks (from inclusion to end of rehabilitation program)
Body weight
body weight in kilograms
Time frame: 6 weeks (from inclusion to end of rehabilitation program)
Body Mass Index score
weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared
Time frame: 6 weeks (from inclusion to end of rehabilitation program)