Expectations of Patients Regarding Exercise in an Outpatient Clinic

Attitude and Expectations of Patients Regarding Exercise and Physical Activity as a Therapeutic Option in an Orthopedic Outpatient Clinic - A Cross-Sectional-Trial

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT06212895

Enrollment

400

Registered

2024-01-19

Start date

2023-12-01

Completion date

2025-07-01

Last updated

2024-01-19

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Conditions

Communcation, Physical Activity, Prescription

Brief summary

Exercise and physical activity are recommended in many clinical guidelines in orthopdeci diseases. Costs, time, doctor-patient-communication and the type of prescription are possible limitations of prescribing exercise as a therapy. It is essential to know the expactiations and attitude of the patients for an accurate, patient-centered, prescription. This trial aims to reveal patients point of view and attitude.

Interventions

OTHERSurvey

A survey is handled out at the patient registration. Patients can fill it out during waiting for their appointment. The physician, who treats the patients is not aware aout the filling status or content. The Survy will not influence the treatment. The Survey consists of 3 parts: patients attidude and expectations, and questionnaire about their usual physical activity and the validated Expectation Treatment Score.

Study design

Observational model

OTHER

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 99 Years

Inclusion criteria

* patient presented the first time in the outpatient study with an issue

Exclusion criteria

* language barrier * cognitive impairment which could lead to missunderstadning of the survey

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Attitude of patients regarding exercise and physical activity as a therapeutic option	July 2024	\- measured via Likert Scale. The attitude is derived from multiple questions in a survey (In my opinion, exercise is as effective as an intervention/operation, etc.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
influencing factors of patients attitude	July 2024	descriptive statistics and regression analysis regarding patient characteristics, measured via surveys (social background, highest graduation; positive experience with exercise as therapeutic option; age in years, bodyweight (kg), kind of orthopedic disease (tendinopathy, arthrosis, disc herniation (nominal categories)

Countries

Germany

Outcome results

None listed

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