Financial incentives and wearable activity monitors to increase ambulation after cystectomy: A randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Financial incentive programs are effective in increasing physical activity for overweight, ambulatory adults. We sought to determine the potential effect size and direction of financial incentives on ambulation after radical cystectomy.

Materials and methods

We performed a pilot randomized controlled trial of daily financial incentives to meet postoperative step goals among adults with Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status ≤2 who underwent radical cystectomy for bladder cancer at a single center. Step counts were measured over a 3- to 14-day preoperative period and 30-day postoperative period using a wearable activity monitor. Postoperative daily step goals of 10%, 25%, 40%, and 55% of mean preoperative daily step counts were set for postoperative

SUBMITTER: Strother M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8184881 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature