NCT04094636

Physical Training During Hospital Admission With Community-Acquired Pneumonia

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 210 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Nordsjaellands Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of standard usual care combined with daily supervised physical training during hospitalization with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) compared to standard usual care alnone.

Detailed description

Community-acuired pneumonia (CAP) is a leading cause of hospitalization worldwide. Despite increased focus on mobilization, hospitalization is associated with bed rest. Bed rest with low levels of physical activity leads to functional deline as well as increased risk of complications. This study is a randomized controlled trial, which investigates the effect of standard usual care combined with daily supervised physical training in patients hospitalized with CAP compared to standard usual care alone.

Conditions

• Community-acquired Pneumonia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	In-bed cycling	Patients will daily perform 30 min of supervised in-bed cycling
BEHAVIORAL	Exercise booklet	Patients will daily perform 30 min of supervised physical training with exercises from the exercise booklet

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-04-01
• Primary completion: 2022-04-01
• Completion: 2022-10-01
• First posted: 2019-09-19
• Last updated: 2022-02-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark