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Surgical prehabilitation is the process of enhancing one's physical function and mental capacity to enable him/or her to withstand the stressor of surgery. Prehabilitation can be achieved via optimizing physical fitness, nutrition, and psychological health. Studies have shown that prehabilitation may prevent complications during and after surgery, reduce hospital length of stay, and improve postoperative recovery. Despite the growing interest in the field of prehabilitation, little is understood about how to implement prehabilitation an integrated clinical service. This study will examine the effect of a prehabilitation program that includes exercise, psychological, and nutritional optimization that emulates clinical integration pathways. Participants of this study will have a choice of participating in facility-based prehabilitation (FBP) or home-based prehabilitation (HBP) depending on their needs/accessibility to the Toronto General Hospital. Participant outcomes will be measured using standardized fitness testing, self-report questionnaires, and medical record reviews at baseline, one week preoperatively, and at 30 and 90 days postoperatively. A comprehensive assessment of feasibility will also be conducted to better understand facilitators and barriers to clinical integration.


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There is growing interest in the role of prehabilitation to reduce surgical risk, attenuate surgery-related deconditioning, and facilitate postoperative recovery. Compared to the postoperative setting, initiating health interventions preoperatively is proposed as an important strategy to improve health outcomes because: i) it targets modifiable risk factors for surgical complications; ii) patients may be more physically and/or psychologically capable of affecting change in health status compared to the early postoperative period; iii) wait times prior to surgery may be several weeks thus representing an opportunity to proactively invest in their recovery; and iv) patients may be sensitized to the importance of adverse health behaviours that may have contributed to the need for surgery (i.e. a 'teachable moment'). The potential benefit of prehabilitation extends beyond potential gains in health from baseline to surgery, but also includes the prevention or attenuation of deconditioning that patients experience during the postoperative period. The findings of recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses assessing the benefits of prehabilitation interventions in surgical patients provide support for their efficacy in improving physical fitness, length of stay, surgical complication rates, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL). While previous interventional studies have demonstrated promising findings, little is known about how feasible it is to integrate prehabilitation into standard of care for people awaiting surgery. This study intends to employ intervention design features previously shown to be feasible and efficacious and employs a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial design model to assess feasibility of clinical integration. ;


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NCT number NCT04155346
Study type Interventional
Source University of Toronto
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Status Active, not recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date November 1, 2019
Completion date December 31, 2024

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