NCT05061576

Instructed Home-based Physical Exercise for Patients With Liver Cirrhosis

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Karolinska University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study will compare two forms of advice regarding physical activity for patients hospitalized with cirrhosis that are preparing for leaving the hospital. One arm consists of current standard of care: simple oral advice on exercise. One arm instead gives patients a structured but simple paper template on physical activity.

Conditions

• Liver Cirrhosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Standard of Care advice on physical activity	Oral advice on exercise from a physician.
BEHAVIORAL	Structured advice on physical activity	A leaflet with instructions and images on different forms of physical activities as well as clear recommendations on when to perform these.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-08-16
• Primary completion: 2025-12-31
• Completion: 2026-12-31
• First posted: 2021-09-29
• Last updated: 2023-10-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Sweden