Expectations of Patients Regarding Exercise in an Outpatient Clinic

Physical Activity Clinical Trial

Official title:

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

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Active, not recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06212895
• Other study ID #: 23-3534-101
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Start date: December 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: July 1, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: January 2024
• Source: University of Regensburg
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial 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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Enrollment: 400
• Est. completion date: July 1, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: December 15, 2024
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 99 Years

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Physical Activity
• Prescription

Intervention

Other:
• Survey
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.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Germany	Department for Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Division of Medical Sociology, University of Regensburg	Regensburg

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Regensburg	OCS Straubing

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Germany, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Attitude of patients regarding exercise and physical activity as a therapeutic option	- 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.	July 2024
Secondary	influencing factors of patients attitude	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)	July 2024