Do Text Message Reminders Increase Preoperative Exercise in Obesity Surgery Candidates?

Obesity Clinical Trial

Official title:

Text Messaging to Improve Adherence to Prehabilitation in Patients Undergoing Bariatric Surgery: a Randomised Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01607177
• Other study ID #: Bariatric Prehabilitation
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 3
• First received: May 24, 2012
• Last updated: November 12, 2013
• Start date: August 2012
• Est. completion date: September 2013

Study information

• Verified date: November 2013
• Source: University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: New Zealand: Ministry of Health
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Preoperative exercise has been shown to improve physiological and functional capacity in patients undergoing abdominal surgery to prepare them for the stress of surgery. Patients undergoing bariatric surgery are advised to partake in regular preoperative exercise. In the setting of bariatric surgery, as well as preparing patients for the stress of surgery, it is also thought to increase the likelihood that they will exercise postoperatively. However, compliance to this advice is extremely low. Text-message interventions have been shown to improve compliance to other lifestyle interventions. The investigators will compare the rate of compliance to preoperative exercise prior to bariatric surgery in patients who receive a daily text message to those who do not. The investigators will also compare weight loss.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 102
• Est. completion date: September 2013
• Est. primary completion date: August 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 20 Years to 60 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients having laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy at Manukau Surgery Centre

• Operation used primarily for the treatment of morbid obesity

Exclusion Criteria:

• Operation not performed at Manukau Surgery Centre

• Patient does not have a mobile phone which can receive text messages

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Bariatric Surgery
• Obesity
• Perioperative Care

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Daily text message reminders
Daily text message reminders to motivate patients to exercise in conjunction with an exercise information sheet.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
New Zealand	Manukau Surgery Centre	Auckland	Manukau City

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Auckland, New Zealand	Health Research Council, New Zealand

Country where clinical trial is conducted

New Zealand, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Proportion of patients partaking in the minimum recommended amount of weekly physical activity	>450 METmins per week of physical activity as measured by the internationally and locally validated IPAQ questionnaire.	6 weeks post recruitment	No
Secondary	Postoperative Physical Activity	Quantity of physical acitivty will be measured as METmins per week as measured by the IPAQ questionnaire	6 weeks postoperatively	No
Secondary	Functional capacity	Measured using the 6 minute walk test	Baseline and 6 weeks post recuitment (preoperatively)	No
Secondary	Length of Hospital Stay	Total number of days spent in hospital following their operation	As assessed at day of discharge	No
Secondary	Short term weight loss	Postoperative weight loss as measured by percentage of excess weight loss	Out to 6 months postoperatively	No
Secondary	Perioperative complications	Prospectively recorded postoperative complications graded according the Clavien-Dindo classification system	Out to 30 days postoperatively	Yes