Clinical trial NCT02635477: Get Going: Accelerometer-Based Intervention to Promote Physical Activity in Frail Older Adults
Official title: Get Going: Fellow-Led Trial of an Accelerometer-Based Intervention to Promote Physical Activity in Frail Older Adults Transitioning From a Cardiovascular Hospitalization to Home
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Coronary Artery Disease
Heart Failure
Lead sponsor: American College of Cardiology
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine
First posted: 2015-12-18
Enrollment: 150
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 70
Maximum age (years): 100
Standard ages: OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: A multicenter prospective randomized clinical trial testing the hypothesis that a patient-centered actigraphy intervention will result in increased physical activity for frail older adults increase during the critical first 30 days after a cardiovascular hospitalization.

Detailed description: The transition from hospital to home is critical for older patients after a cardiovascular hospitalization, since 1 in 3 will suffer the fate of functional decline or repeat hospitalizations within the first 30 days. This has a tremendous impact on the patient, leading to a vicious cycle of worsening health status and disability, and the healthcare system, leading to an estimated $12 billion of preventable costs. At the policy level, preventing readmissions has become a national priority at the forefront of the medical agenda.

Frailty, a geriatric syndrome characterized by subclinical impairments in multiple organs and decreased physiologic resiliency, is a major risk factor for unsuccessful transitions of care and adverse health outcomes. Thus, it has been suggested that interventions aimed at improving transitions of care should target frail patients. Frail individuals demonstrate a well-defined phenotype of muscle weakness and physical inactivity, readily measurable using various scales and instruments. To date, the most widely studied intervention to improve frailty and related outcomes has been physical activity.

However, fewer than 50% of patients adhere to regular physical activity programs. Enrollment in cardiac rehabilitation programs is even lower owing to multiple barriers, including lack of payer reimbursement ≤ 30 days after a hospitalization, the highest risk period for readmissions. Scientific statements have called for augmented "self-care" to assure adequate physical activity in patients with heart failure and other forms of cardiovascular disease 10. Moreover, low-intensity home-based physical activity programs can be as efficacious as higher-intensity center-based programs, strengthening the rationale for self-care.

The advent of small, portable, inexpensive accelerometer devices has emerged as a powerful tool to facilitate self-monitored physical activity. These devices are worn by patients and provide real-time feedback about the number of steps walked each day (as well as other functional parameters). This is in tune with a systematic review which found that feedback and goal setting improved adherence to physical activity in patients with heart failure. A few studies in the physical therapist literature have used accelerometers to demonstrate low baseline physical activity and boost total step counts in patients attending cardiac rehabilitation, but these patients were at least 30 days removed from their index hospitalization, and none enrolled patients in the critical post-discharge phase.

Research question: Is a portable actigraphy-based intervention more effective than standard-of-care in promoting physical activity in the first 30 days after hospital discharge among frail older adults with cardiovascular disease?

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. older adults aged ≥70 years,
2. at least one criteria positive on the FRAIL scale,
3. hospital discharge to an independent residence,
4. primary final discharge diagnosis of coronary disease or heart failure but not requiring cardiac surgery or TAVR during the index hospitalization,
5. able to stand and walk without assistance from another person,
6. able to carry out basic activities of daily living without assistance as per Clinical Frailty Scale rating ≤5,
7. signed informed consent from the patients, and
8. approval from the treating physician that the patient is safe and appropriate to participate in this trial.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. cognitive impairment defined by a positive mini-cog test or known moderate or severe dementia,
2. more than one fall in the past six months, or a fall in the past three months prior to hospitalization,
3. high-risk for falls or unsteady for mobilization according to a clinical physical therapist's assessment (if performed) or as assessed during functional testing,
4. non-revascularized acute myocardial infarction within the past month (unless revascularization was not indicated) or uncorrected severe symptomatic aortic stenosis,
5. active severe symptoms of angina, dyspnea, or claudication at rest or with minimal activity (Canadian Cardiovascular Society class 4, New York Heart Association class 4, or Fontaine class 3-4, respectively),
6. referral to a structured cardiac rehabilitation program in the first 30 days after hospital discharge (not counting home-based physical therapy),
7. unable to return for follow-up visit, and
8. poor comprehension of the actigraphy device.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Steps taken per day
timeFrame: 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Quality of life
timeFrame: baseline, 30 days
measure: Short physical performance battery
timeFrame: baseline, 30 days
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Atlanta
country: United States
facility: Emory University
state: Georgia
city: Boston
country: United States
facility: Boston Veterans Affairs
state: Massachusetts
city: Ann Arbor
country: United States
facility: Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs
state: Michigan
city: Ann Arbor
country: United States
facility: University of Michigan Health System
state: Michigan
city: Dearborn
country: United States
facility: Beaumont Health System/Oakwood
state: Michigan
city: Ypsilanti
country: United States
facility: St. Joseph Mercy Hospital
state: Michigan
city: Rochester
country: United States
facility: Mayo Clinic
state: New Hampshire
city: New York
country: United States
facility: New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia
state: New York
city: New York
country: United States
facility: New York Presbyterian Hospital/Cornell
state: New York
city: Chapel Hill
country: United States
facility: University of North Carolina
state: North Carolina
city: Durham
country: United States
facility: Duke University
state: North Carolina
city: Cleveland
country: United States
facility: Case Western Reserve University/University Hospital
state: Ohio
city: Pittsburgh
country: United States
facility: University of Pittsburgh
state: Pennsylvania
city: Seattle
country: United States
facility: University of Washington
state: Washington
city: Montreal
country: Canada
facility: McGill University
state: Quebec
city: Montreal
country: Canada
facility: Montreal Heart Institute
state: Quebec
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
name: Scott Hummel, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
name: Jonathan Afilalo, MD, MSc
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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