Use of Wearable Tech to Increase Physical Activity in Inpatient Rehabilitation for Patients With Chronic Pain
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 44
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Percentage achieving 100 PAIs per week
Study Overview
Brief Summary
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.
Detailed Description
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 Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- Single (Investigator)
Masking Description
The researchers performing the analyses will be blinded
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •taking part in inpatient rehabilitation at Unicare Helefort Rehabilitation center for chronic pain.
Exclusion Criteria
- •not having a smartphone (will not be able to access the mobile application).
- •using a wheelchair (the technology will be not able to measure activity correctly)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Percentage achieving 100 PAIs per week
Time Frame: 2 weeks (time period at home between two stays at the rehabilitation center)
Personal Activity Intelligence (PAI)
Activity level
Time Frame: 2 weeks (time period at home between two stays at the rehabilitation center)
Time spent in moderate to vigorous physical activity (minutes per day)
Number of PAIs
Time Frame: 2 weeks (time period at home between two stays at the rehabilitation center)
mean number of Personal Activity Intelligence (PAI) points achieved per week
Secondary Outcomes
- Average pain(6 weeks (from inclusion to end of rehabilitation program))
- Body Mass Index score(6 weeks (from inclusion to end of rehabilitation program))
- Body weight(6 weeks (from inclusion to end of rehabilitation program))
- oxygen uptake(6 weeks (from inclusion to end of rehabilitation program))
- Anxiety and depression symptoms(6 weeks (from inclusion to end of rehabilitation program))
- Health related quality of life(6 weeks (from inclusion to end of rehabilitation program))