Exercise therapy and self-management support for individuals with multimorbidity: a randomized and controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: Despite increasing individual and societal burden, evidence for effective management strategies of multimorbidity is missing. Exercise therapy and self-management support are promising interventions, but their effect has not been evaluated. We hypothesized that exercise therapy and self-management support were superior to usual care alone in improving health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in individuals with multimorbidity. In this pragmatic multicenter, assessor-blinded randomized controlled trial (MOBILIZE), we enrolled 228 adult patients with two or more selected long-term conditions that limited their daily activities, but who were able to walk at least 3 meters without assistance, and who did not have unstable health conditions, life expectancy less than 12 months, or selected psychi

SUBMITTER: Skou ST 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12443619 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature