A Structured Low-Intensity Home-Based Walking Program to Improve Physical and Mental Functioning After Hospitalization for Severe COVID-19: A Pragmatic Nonrandomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT: Background/Objectives: We aimed to test whether home-based low-intensity interval training (LIIT) could be equally or more effective than traditional continuous walking advice (TWA) in a population hospitalized and healed from severe COVID-19. Methods: This pragmatic nonrandomized controlled trial (NCT04615390) enrolled patients admitted to intensive care units due to COVID-19 who at discharge from the hospital were given a choice between either a home-based LIIT program or TWA. The former received a structured LIIT walking (1:1 walk:rest ratio per 10 times) to be performed at a prescribed progressively increasing speed maintained with a metronome. The latter received TWA according to the guidelines (30 min or moderate intensity activity, 5 days/week). Outcome measures, colle

SUBMITTER: Lamberti N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12524472 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature