Association Between Inpatient Steps Per Day and Patient Functional Status/Disposition

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Physical Medicine
• Interventions: Other: Standard of Care; Behavioral: Ambulation

• Registration Number: NCT03595605
• Lead Sponsor: NYU Langone Health

Brief Summary

This study will incorporate the use of wearable actigraphy devices (Fitbit) on research participants admitted to medicine inpatient units at Tisch Hospital and/or NYU Brooklyn. The investigator's sample size will be 600 randomized into two groups, with basic inclusion criteria including age greater than 65 years and pre-hospital ambulatory status. While both groups will be monitored in terms of their activity (specifically pedometer data), the intervention group will have twice daily encouragement of ambulation. Once a subject is enrolled, data will be collected daily and at time of discharge.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-05-16
• Study First Submitted: 2018-05-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-07-12
• Study First Posted: 2018-07-23
• Primary Completion: 2019-03-30
• Study Completion: 2019-03-30
• Status Verified: 2020-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-05-28
• Last Update Posted: 2020-05-29

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 51

Inclusion Criteria

• Admitted to acute inpatient medicine unit
• Ambulatory without assistive device prior to hospitalization
• Medical clearance to ambulate on the unit
• Active MyChart account or willing to activate MyChart account
• iOS or Android device

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Exclusion Criteria

• Patients less than or equal to 65 years old
• Not Admitted to acute inpatient medicine unit
• Ambulatory with assistive device prior to hospitalization
• No Medical clearance to ambulate on the unit
• Inactive MyChart account and not willing to activate MyChart account
• No iOS or Android device

In addition, an individual who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study:

• Oxygen requirement at rest
• Lower extremity prosthesis
• Admitted for joint replacement surgery
• History of frequent falls
• Admitted for syncope.
• If patients have specifically opted out of being contacted about research (visible in the Epic header while in their chart)
• Admitted from nursing home

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Control Group-Standard of Care	Standard of Care	300 subjects who will receive usual standard of care on a general inpatient medicine unit with the addition of a wearable device (FitBit) to track usual mobility in this setting. will complete their admission without push for increased activity (although having the device may influence their steps taken).
FitBit Group	Ambulation	Will receive a wearable device (FitBit) designed to track number of steps for the duration of their hospital stay. They will receive nudges twice/day to ambulate

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Determine how many steps patients admitted to the medicine units are taking at baseline	1 Day	Steps will be measured using a wearable device (FitBit) designed to track number of steps for the duration of their hospital stay

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

New York University School of Medicine; 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States