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Conditions
Brief summary
Previous research suggests that the use of small nudges or reminders can help people keep exercising or staying active. We know that people who stay active have better health than those who do not. TextNudge for Activity, is an automated text messaging service to help support and encourage people to stay active after they have finished the rehabilitation provided by the district health board. The researchers want to investigate if it is practical to give people discharged from physiotherapy an automated text message intervention. They want to find out how people feel about this service, whether they find it helpful and if they have suggestions to improve it. If receiving these brief reminders helps to encourage people to continue to exercise or keep active, then this may become a low-cost way to continue physiotherapy for longer.
Interventions
An automated text-messaging intervention to encourage and support exercise and activity after discharge from physiotherapy. The physiotherapist will select from one of a number of different packages of text messages. Each of the packages will contain a total of 44 texts of pre-written text messages. The text packages will take in to account patient preference of the type of encouragement they find most appropriate and will also look at the basic type of exercise or activity the patient has been
An automated text-messaging intervention to encourage and support exercise and activity after discharge from physiotherapy. The physiotherapist will select from one of a number of different packages of text messages. Each of the packages will contain a total of 44 texts of pre-written text messages. The text packages will take in to account patient preference of the type of encouragement they find most appropriate and will also look at the basic type of exercise or activity the patient has been prescribed, selected from ‘general encouragement’, ‘general arm exercise nudges’ ‘general leg exercise nudges’ and ‘general fitness nudges’. The TextNudge intervention will run for 12 weeks and messages will be sent daily for the first 4 weeks of the programme then 3 times per week for the remaining 8 weeks. Texts will be reminders to continue with pre-arranged exercises. A disclaimer will accompany the first text explaining that texts do not take the place of medical advice and to seek help if new problems occur.
Sponsors
Auckland University of Technology
Study design
Allocation
Non-randomised trial
Primary purpose
Treatment
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Physiotherapist participants: all those who are discharging patients from physiotherapy treatment in to the community during the 4-week recruitment period, within Waitemata DHB. Patient participants: all those who are discharged by participating physiotherapists during the 4-week recruitment period, who live in the community.
Exclusion criteria
The inability to give informed consent.
Outcome results
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