NCT06983977

Increasing Physical Activity Among Medical Inpatients by Digital Nudging of Patients and Staff

Increasing Physical Activity Among Medical Inpatients by Digital Nudging of Patients and Staff - A Cluster Randomised Multicentre Study

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 400 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Bispebjerg Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Sedentary behaviour among medical inpatients is strongly associated with hospital-associated functional decline and poses a severe threat to patients' functional capacity and independency. High human and socioeconomic costs underline the urgency to find solutions to this world-wide problem. Objective: This multicentre study, including a total of 400 patients from Copenhagen, Aalborg, Tórshavn, and Nuuk, will assess the effect of a digital intervention that aims to reduce sedentary behaviour and increase physical activity in medical inpatients. Intervention: Digital feedback and nudging regarding the patients' physical activity levels to patients and healthcare staff Design: Stepped-wedge cluster randomised multicentre trial Primary outcome: Daily average time of patients' physical activity (minutes).

Conditions

• Physical Activity
• Inpatients
• Digital Health

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Measurement of physical activity	Measurement of physical activity by accelerometer
OTHER	Digital nudging	Digital feedback and nudging to participants (patients) and staff, based on participants' physical activity measurements, aiming to increase patients' physical activity and reduce sedentary time

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-05-19
• Primary completion: 2026-06-01
• Completion: 2027-12-01
• First posted: 2025-05-22
• Last updated: 2025-05-25

Locations

4 sites across 3 countries: Denmark, Faroe Islands, Greenland