Chronic Pain, Musculoskeletal Pain
Conditions
Keywords
Exercise, Biomedical Technology
Brief summary
The aim of this project is to evaluate whether use of wearable tech increases levels of physical activity in patients participating in inpatient rehabilitation for chronic pain.
Detailed description
Chronic pain is a vast problem with profound consequences for individuals and societies. Exercise and physical activity is an important part of the treatment for chronic pain. Use of wearable tech might be a way to help facilitate physical activity in patients with chronic pain. Here it will be evaluated whether use of wearable tech giving feedback about the user's activity level increases physical activity in patients participating in inpatient rehabilitation for chronic pain. The control group will be wearing the same wearable tech as the intervention group, but they will not receive any feedback about their activity level. The feedback application will give participants in the intervention group information about the number of PAI they earn each week. PAI is short for personal activity Intelligence. You earn PAI points every time your heart rate increases: The higher heart rate, the faster you earn PAI. Previous research have shown that those who achieve 100 PAI or more every week over time live for an average of more than eight years longer than others. During the study all participants will take part in a traditional inpatient rehabilitation program. The program consist of two periods at the rehabilitation center with two weeks at home in-between. The study will take place during the two periods at the senter and the period at home. Time spent on physical activity and number of earned PAI's will be counted during the period at home.
Interventions
An armwrist device measuring physical activity level. The user will receive information about their physical activity level through their smartphone.
An armwrist device measuring physical activity level, no reporting back to the user.
BEHAVIORALRehabilitation program
traditional inpatient rehabilitation program.
Sponsors
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE (Investigator)
Masking description
The researchers performing the analyses will be blinded
Intervention model description
A parallel group design with two groups
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* taking part in inpatient rehabilitation at Unicare Helefort Rehabilitation center for chronic pain.
Exclusion criteria
* not having a smartphone (will not be able to access the mobile application). * using a wheelchair (the technology will be not able to measure activity correctly)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Activity level | 2 weeks (time period at home between two stays at the rehabilitation center) | Time spent in moderate to vigorous physical activity (minutes per day) |
| Number of PAIs | 2 weeks (time period at home between two stays at the rehabilitation center) | mean number of Personal Activity Intelligence (PAI) points achieved per week |
| Percentage achieving 100 PAIs per week | 2 weeks (time period at home between two stays at the rehabilitation center) | Personal Activity Intelligence (PAI) |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Health related quality of life | 6 weeks (from inclusion to end of rehabilitation program) | EQ5D questionnaire |
| oxygen uptake | 6 weeks (from inclusion to end of rehabilitation program) | submaximal oxygen uptake measured by the Åstrand bicycle test (described in Textbook of work physiology by Astrand from 1986) |
| Body Mass Index score | 6 weeks (from inclusion to end of rehabilitation program) | weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared |
| Body weight | 6 weeks (from inclusion to end of rehabilitation program) | body weight in kilograms |
| Anxiety and depression symptoms | 6 weeks (from inclusion to end of rehabilitation program) | HSCL-25 questionnaire |
| Average pain | 6 weeks (from inclusion to end of rehabilitation program) | Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). VAS is a straight horizontal line where the ends are defined as the extreme limits from the left (0-no pain) to the right (100-worst imaginable pain). The patient is asked to mark his pain level on the line between the two endpoints. The distance between 'no pain at all' and the mark then defines the subject's pain. |
Countries
Norway
Outcome results
None listed