Pedometer Coaching to Promote Postoperative Ambulation

Description

The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate whether remote pedometer follow-up and virtual coaching can improve ambulation after major abdominopelvic surgery, and how this affects key postoperative outcomes. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does pedometer-guided ambulation coaching increases ambulation after surgery? * Does pedometer-guided coaching improve satisfaction, quality of recovery, while reducing postoperative complications? Participants will be asked to install a pedometer app for the purpose of data sharing. Study personnel will compare pedometer follow-up plus text message coaching (intervention) with pedometer follow-up only (control) to investigate whether coaching improves adherence to the postoperative ambulation recommendation, and whether this leads to improvement of the secondary outcomes.

Conditions

Postoperative Outcomes

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Study overview

The goal of this randomized controlled trial is to evaluate whether remote pedometer follow-up and virtual coaching can improve ambulation after major abdominopelvic surgery, and how this affects key postoperative outcomes. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does pedometer-guided ambulation coaching increases ambulation after surgery? * Does pedometer-guided coaching improve satisfaction, quality of recovery, while reducing postoperative complications? Participants will be asked to install a pedometer app for the purpose of data sharing. Study personnel will compare pedometer follow-up plus text message coaching (intervention) with pedometer follow-up only (control) to investigate whether coaching improves adherence to the postoperative ambulation recommendation, and whether this leads to improvement of the secondary outcomes.

A Randomized, Controlled Trial to Evaluate if Pedometer-Guided Coaching Can Promote Postoperative Ambulation After Abdominopelvic Surgeries

Pedometer Coaching to Promote Postoperative Ambulation

Condition
Postoperative Outcomes
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Stony Brook

Stony Brook University Hospital, Stony Brook, New York, United States, 11794

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Adult subjects ≥18 years at screening
  • * Subjects undergoing major abdominopelvic surgery under general anesthesia, expected to last more than 3 hours from induction of anesthesia to anesthesia stop time.
  • * Able to understand the study procedures and voluntarily provide study informed consent
  • * Agree to be followed up for the duration of the study period
  • * Has access to a smart phone with app compatibility
  • * Planned inpatient stay for 1 night or more
  • * Subjects undergoing liver surgery or upper gastrointestinal surgery
  • * Refusal to install the app/ deleted app before end of the monitor period
  • * Subjects who are unable to walk at baseline
  • * Medical contraindications for unrestricted ambulation
  • * Patients with spinal or lower limb pathology, chronic or poorly controlled pain potentially preventing full postoperative ambulation
  • * Neurological impairment precluding unrestricted ambulation Cognitive impairment precluding consent or follow up study activities
  • * BMI \>40
  • * Patients who require any mobility aid at baseline
  • * Subjects discharged to a rehab facility or never discharged from the hospital alive
  • * Hospital length of stay \> 1 week
  • * Patient not cleared by physical therapy for unrestricted ambulation on discharge

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Stony Brook University,

Sergio D Bergese, MD, FASA, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Stony Brook Medicine

Study Record Dates

2024-08