PREPARE- Prehabilitation for Patients Awaiting Liver Transplantation: Feasibility and Acceptability Testing.

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Liver Transplant

Treatments: Behavioral: Prehabilitation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06036225

21081JB-AS

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a study developing a prehabilitation intervention and then testing the acceptability and feasibility of the intervention.

Start date Aug 2022 for Focus groups and Feb 2023 Co-design workshops and feasibility study date pending

Full description

This study is using focus groups and experience based co-design workshops to co-design a remote multicomponent prehabilitation intervention for patients awaiting liver transplantation.

Once the intervention is developed it will then be tested for acceptability and feasibility with the liver transplantation cohort in Belfast Northern Ireland.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• on the transplant waiting list
• grade 3 below for encephalopathy

Exclusion criteria

• grade 4 above encephalopathy
• Known adverse reaction to exercise
• New stroke
• lacks capacity to consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Receiving the prehabilitation intervention

Experimental group

Description:

All participants will receive the prehabilitation intervention.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Prehabilitation