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).
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
400
Measurement of physical activity by accelerometer
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
Bispebjerg Hospital
Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark
RECRUITINGAalborg University Hospital
Hobro, North Denmark, Denmark
RECRUITINGNational Hospital
Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
RECRUITINGQueen Ingrids Hospital
Nuuk, Greenland
RECRUITINGDaily average time of participants' physical activity (minutes)
Time frame: From enrollment to end of trial participation (maximum 7 days)
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