Pedometers for the Enhancement of Post Cesarean Mobility

Wolfson Medical Center (WMC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mobility Limitation

Treatments: Other: personalized repeated feedback approach

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03724760

0165-18-WOMC

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a randomized controlled trial, planned to study the effects of pedometers (digital step counters) on patient mobility following cesarean delivery. The investigators plan to randomize patients at high risk for thromboembolic events to participants with a personalized repeated feedback approach based on pedometer results, versus participants with no feedback to pedometer results.

Enrollment: 291 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients following cesarean delivery
• Consent to participation
• No medical recommendation for bed rest and limited mobility
• Meet any of the following criteria for high risk for thromboembolic complications - preeclampsia, chronic disease (reumatic, inflammatory bowel disease), obese, smoker > 10 cigaretts a day, age >35, substantial limb varicose, multiple gestation, multiparity (> deliveries), emergent surgery, thrombophilia.

Exclusion criteria

• Refusal to participate
• Medical recommendation to limit mobility

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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291 participants in 2 patient groups

Feedback

Experimental group

Description:

Patients in this arm will wear a pedometer for two days following cesarean delivery. During this period, they will recieve feedback regrding the number of steps taken by them at two time points.

Treatment:

Other: personalized repeated feedback approach

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients in this arm will wear a pedometer for two days following cesarean delivery. During this period, they will recieve no feedback regrding the number of steps taken by them.