Health Coaching for Patients Waiting for Hip or Knee Replacements

Feasibility of Targeted Health Coaching for Patients With Low Activation Waiting for Total Hip or Total Knee Replacements

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT06101875

Enrollment

Registered

2023-10-26

Start date

2023-08-08

Completion date

2023-11-30

Last updated

2023-10-26

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Conditions

Osteoarthritis, Hip, Osteo Arthritis Knee

Brief summary

A randomised controlled feasibility study of a health coaching intervention targeting people on the waitlist for hip or knee replacement surgery with low patient activation.

Detailed description

Determine the feasibility of recruitment and retention to the trial. Evaluate the acceptability of research procedures and outcome measures. Explore the impact of trial participation through patient activation, self-reported health outcomes and interviews.

Interventions

OTHERHealth Coach (Health coaching)

Patients will be assigned a health coach and be eligible to 8 times, 1 hour sessions over a 12 week period. The health coach will use techniques to increase their ability to self-manage, motivation levels and commitment to change their behaviour.

OTHERDigital Toolkit (Control)

This is an online website, unsupervised, 12-week self-management programme.

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

30 Years to 90 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* On the waitlist for total hip or total knee replacement surgery * PAM level 1 or 2

Exclusion criteria

* Current participation in care with a focus on self-management education * PAM Level 3 or 4

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Competition rates	12 weeks	Completion is determined by participants that attend baseline and follow-up testing.
Recruitment Rates	4 weeks	Defined as rate of invited participants who are eligible and consenting.
Retention Rates	12 weeks	Retention rates will be established as discontinuation with the exercise intervention and absence from the assessment sessions.
Acceptability of intervention	12 weeks	Will be evaluated by participants feedback via one-to-one semi-structured interviews.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Change in patient activation	12 weeks	Patient activation measure 13-item questionnaire (0 - 100 point scale)
Change in quality of life	12 weeks	EQ-5D-5L questionnaire (1 - 5 point scale)
Change in pain score	12 weeks	Oxford score questionnaire (0 - 48 point scale)
Change in physical activity	12 weeks	IPAQ-SF questionnaire (MET/mins)

Countries

United Kingdom

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026