Evidence Based Patient Information and Smartphone Accelerometry to Enhance Physical Activity in MS (PIA)

Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Progressive

Treatments: Behavioral: Smartphone App

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03114293

inims-pia

Details and patient eligibility

About

Due to their ubiquitary distribution, smartphones might serve as an easy way/ possibility to use feedback mechanism in an app-based intervention program to increase physical activity in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients. Internet based cognitive-behavioral interventions have been explored as effective in the last years. In addition, smartphone-based mobility assessment and intervention might be a promising approach in other MS types and for real-life mobility assessment in observational and interventional trials. The aim is to investigate the impact of a smartphone based information and feedback program on physical activity in a 3 months, randomised waiting-group controlled trial of 40 progressive MS patients.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• progressive MS

Exclusion criteria

• other major health disorder
• EDSS above 6

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Waiting group

No Intervention group

Description:

Waiting group

Smartphone intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Smartphone bases behavioural intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Smartphone App