Expectations of Patients Regarding Exercise in an Outpatient Clinic

Active, not recruiting

• Conditions: Prescription; Communcation; Physical Activity

• Registration Number: NCT06212895
• Lead Sponsor: University of Regensburg

Brief Summary

Exercise and physical activity are recommended in many clinical guidelines in orthopdeci diseases. Costs, time, doctor-patient-communication and the type of prescription are possible limitations of prescribing exercise as a therapy. It is essential to know the expactiations and attitude of the patients for an accurate, patient-centered, prescription. This trial aims to reveal patients point of view and attitude.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-12-01
• Study First Submitted: 2023-12-08
• Status Verified: 2024-01
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-01-15
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-01-15
• Study First Posted: 2024-01-19
• Last Update Posted: 2024-01-19
• Primary Completion: 2024-12-15
• Study Completion: 2025-07-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 400

Inclusion Criteria

• patient presented the first time in the outpatient study with an issue

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Exclusion Criteria

• language barrier
• cognitive impairment which could lead to missunderstadning of the survey

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Attitude of patients regarding exercise and physical activity as a therapeutic option	July 2024	- measured via Likert Scale. The attitude is derived from multiple questions in a survey ("In my opinion, exercise is as effective as an intervention/operation", etc.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
influencing factors of patients attitude	July 2024	descriptive statistics and regression analysis regarding patient characteristics, measured via surveys (social background, highest graduation; positive experience with exercise as therapeutic option; age in years, bodyweight (kg), kind of orthopedic disease (tendinopathy, arthrosis, disc herniation (nominal categories)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department for Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Division of Medical Sociology, University of Regensburg; 🇩🇪 Regensburg, Germany