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NCT Number: NCT06983977

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

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).

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Key information

Conditions

Physical Activity Behavior Digital Health Inpatients Motor Activity

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Admitted to one of the participating wards
Has understood and signed informed consent
Reads and understands Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic or English

Exclusion criteria

Has an expected hospitalisation less than 24 hours after potential recruitment
Is not able to give informed consent to participate in the study
Has allergy towards band aid
Not able to (shortly) stand in an upright position even with maximal assistance
There are contraindications for the patient to mobilise or be physically active due to unstabilized acute medical conditions, including, but not limited to, acute aortic dissection, -myocardial infarction, -pulmonary embolism, -sepsis.
There are ethical concerns regarding the patients' participation in the study, including, but not limited to, the patient being:

In the terminal phase of life
In a crisis state regarding their disease/situation and deemed unfit for participation

To ensure medically responsible inclusion of patients, the project personnel will consult and confer with the treatment responsible medical doctor, or their delegate, before including a potential participant for the trial.

Treatment and study plan

Measurement of physical activity

Other

Measurement of physical activity by accelerometer

Digital nudging

Other

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

Primary outcomes

Daily average time of participants' physical activity (minutes)

Time frame: From enrollment to end of trial participation (maximum 7 days)

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Durita V Gunnarsson, PhD student, MSc.

CONTACT

[email protected]

+45 26472857

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Bispebjerg Hospital

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Increasing Physical Activity Among Medical Inpatients by Digital Nudging of Patients and Staff - A Cluster Randomised Multicentre Study

Acronym: IPAMINA

Important dates

Study start: 2025
Primary completion: 2026
Study completion: 2027
First posted: May 22, 2025
Registry last updated: May 25, 2025

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