Text Messaging to Improve Adherence to Prehabilitation in Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery: a Randomised Controlled Trial
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Enrollment
- 102
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Proportion of patients partaking in the minimum recommended amount of weekly physical activity
Study Overview
Brief Summary
Preoperative exercise has been shown to improve physiological and functional capacity in patients undergoing abdominal surgery to prepare them for the stress of surgery. Patients undergoing bariatric surgery are advised to partake in regular preoperative exercise. In the setting of bariatric surgery, as well as preparing patients for the stress of surgery, it is also thought to increase the likelihood that they will exercise postoperatively. However, compliance to this advice is extremely low. Text-message interventions have been shown to improve compliance to other lifestyle interventions. The investigators will compare the rate of compliance to preoperative exercise prior to bariatric surgery in patients who receive a daily text message to those who do not. The investigators will also compare weight loss.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 20 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Patients having laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy at Manukau Surgery Centre
- •Operation used primarily for the treatment of morbid obesity
Exclusion Criteria
- •Operation not performed at Manukau Surgery Centre
- •Patient does not have a mobile phone which can receive text messages
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Proportion of patients partaking in the minimum recommended amount of weekly physical activity
Time Frame: 6 weeks post recruitment
\>450 METmins per week of physical activity as measured by the internationally and locally validated IPAQ questionnaire.
Secondary Outcomes
- Short term weight loss(Out to 6 months postoperatively)
- Perioperative complications(Out to 30 days postoperatively)
- Postoperative Physical Activity(6 weeks postoperatively)
- Functional capacity(Baseline and 6 weeks post recuitment (preoperatively))
- Length of Hospital Stay(As assessed at day of discharge)
Investigators
SACS
Professor Andrew G. Hill
University of Auckland, New Zealand