Social Incentives to Increase Mobility

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Pneumonia, Diabetes, Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

In brief

This study aims to assess the effectiveness of a social incentive-based gamification intervention to increase physical activity in the 3 months after hospital discharge.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03321279

Run by

University of Pennsylvania

People needed

233

Starts

2018-01-11

Expected to finish

2019-09-09

Last updated by the study team

2020-07-30

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Age 18 or older
• Admitted to medicine or oncology floor in the hospital

You may not qualify if…

• Inability to provide informed consent
• Does not have daily access to a smartphone compatible with the wearable device
• Already enrolled in another physical activity program
• Inpatient mobility score of 0 or 1 indicating that physical activity is not appropriate for the patient
• Any other medical conditions that would prohibit participation in a 3-month physical activity program
• Unable to complete the run-in phases (e.g. not discharged from the hospital within 60 days of enrolling; not willing to use the wearable device for the 3-month post-discharge intervention).

Where it is running

• University of Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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