Promoting Activity in Geriatric Rehabilitation: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Accelerometry.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Low activity levels in inpatient rehabilitation are associated with adverse outcomes. The study aimed to test whether activity levels can be increased by the provision of monitored activity data to patients and clinicians in the context of explicit goal setting.

Methods

A randomized controlled trial in three sites in Australia included 255 inpatients aged 60 and older who had a rehabilitation goal to become ambulant. The primary outcome was patients' walking time measured by accelerometers during the rehabilitation admission. Walking times from accelerometry were made available daily to treating therapists and intervention participants to motivate patients to improve incidental activity levels and reach set goals. For the control group, 'usual care' was followed,

SUBMITTER: Peel NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5001632 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature