The effect of Brief Physical Activity Counselling by Physiotherapists (BEHAVIOUR)within routine care versus routine physiotherapy care alone on patient physical activitylevels: hybrid type II effectiveness-implementation cluster randomised controlled trial.

The University of Sydney0 sites330 target enrollmentFebruary 23, 2021

Overview

No summary available.

Registry

who.int

Start Date

February 23, 2021

End Date

TBD

Last Updated

4 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Sex

All

Sponsor

•Physiotherapy team inclusion:
•This trial will include 30 clusters. A cluster is defined as a hospital clinical team that provides a service for inpatients or outpatients within South Western Sydney Local Health District (SWSLHD), NSW, Australia, that has one or more physiotherapists within the team. For the cluster to be included in the trial there needs to be at least one physiotherapist within the team interested in participating and who meets the following eligibility criteria:
•anticipate they will remain employed within SWSLHD for the next 12 months;
•either permanent or at least 6\-month rotation in the identified clinical team;
•would treat at least 10 new eligible adult patients within their clinical team over a 3\-month period;
•not working in a split role across two clinical teams that have both been identified as potential clusters for the trial.
•Patient inclusion:
•Patient\-participants are likely to be affected by common and/or burdensome conditions such as, but not limited to, osteoarthritis, lower limb amputations, chronic pain, stroke, brain injury, cardiac and pulmonary disease.
•The trial will include any consenting adults (18 \+ years) who:
•are a new patient of one of the participating physiotherapists during the recruitment period;

•Physiotherapy team exclusion:
•Patient exclusion criteria:
•The trial will exclude adults who:
•are residents of residential aged care facilities;
•have the following medical conditions: delirium, acute medical illnesses, severe psychiatric disorders, rapidly progressive neurological diseases;
•have any medical reason for which strategies to increase physical activity would be contra\-indicated, determined by the treating physiotherapist.