NCT03321279

Social Incentives to Increase Mobility

Social Incentives to Increase Mobility Among Hospitalized Patients: The MOVE IT Randomized Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 233 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to assess the effectiveness of a social incentive-based gamification intervention to increase physical activity in the 3 months after hospital discharge.

Detailed description

This study aims to assess the effectiveness of a social incentive-based gamification intervention to increase physical activity in the 3 months after hospital discharge. To do this, the investigators will conduct a two-arm randomized, controlled trial during the 3-months after hospital discharge comparing a control group that uses a wearable device to track physical activity to an intervention group that uses the same wearable devices and receives a supportive social incentive-based gamification intervention to adhere to a step goal program. Patients will be enrolled during hospitalization from medicine and oncology floors into three phases. In phase 1 (hospitalization), patients inpatient step counts will be monitored. In phase 2 (week 1 post-discharge), patients will have a baseline step count estimated. In phase 3 (weeks 2-13 post-discharge), patients will be randomly assigned to the control or intervention group. Patients will be considered enrolled in the trial if they complete the run-in periods (phases 1 and 2) and then are randomized into phase 3. The enrollment phase will be part of another randomized trial which evaluates the impact of three recruitment strategies on patient enrollment. This trial will be completed and unmasked to patients before they begin the phase 1 of our study. The investigators will also explore patients' physical activity while in the hospital and if that differs across floors that have or have not deployed a nursing mobility protocol. Changes in patient functional decline and 30-day hospital readmission will also be explored.

Conditions

• Pneumonia
• Diabetes
• Congestive Heart Failure
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Social Incentive	Participants in the intervention arm will receive social incentives as part of the intervention. See arm descriptions for more detail.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-01-11
• Primary completion: 2019-09-09
• Completion: 2019-09-09
• First posted: 2017-10-25
• Last updated: 2020-07-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States