NCT04269239

Effectiveness of Healthy Habits for Hospitalized Older Adults to Optimize Rehabilitation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 73 (actual)
• Sponsor: Baylor College of Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to evaluate behavioral interventions in conjunction with medical rehabilitation to promote functional health in patients recovering from orthopedic surgery. Half of the subjects in this study will be assigned to an intervention that meets with a study therapist to discuss implementing healthy habits. The other half of subjects will assigned to an intervention group that meets with a study therapists to discuss implementing healthy sleep habits. Both groups will undergo several physical and cognitive assessments.

Detailed description

Improving healthy habits such as sleep, nutrition or physical activity is expected to enhance rehabilitation in knee or hip arthroplasty patients, by increasing their ability to attend and adhere to rehabilitation recommendations following surgery. Half of the subjects in this study will be assigned to an intervention that meets with a study therapist to discuss implementing healthy habits (physical activity, nutrition, pain-coping techniques, etc). The other half of subjects will assigned to an intervention group that meets with a study therapists to discuss implementing healthy sleep habits. Both groups will undergo several physical and cognitive assessments at baseline (prior to surgery), post-hospital, post-intervention and at a 6 month follow-up visit.

Conditions

• Insomnia
• Pain
• Osteoarthritis, Knee
• Osteoarthritis, Hip

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Healthy Habits	Participants in this group will be coached during four hour-long sessions on topics such as physical activity, nutrition, pain coping skills, bladder health, diabetes, heart health, eyes/vision, hearing, and doctor-patient communication.
BEHAVIORAL	Sleep Habits	Participants in this group will be coached during four hour-long sessions on topics such as sleep education, sleep restriction, stimulus control, cognitive restructuring, sleep hygiene education, and relapse prevention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-30
• Primary completion: 2024-09-30
• Completion: 2024-11-30
• First posted: 2020-02-13
• Last updated: 2025-08-29

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: United States