{"type":"trials","record":{"id":34878,"source_id":"clinicaltrials-gov","external_id":"NCT06802289","title":"Preventing Frailty in Hospital Through Mobilizing","brief_summary":"Frailty describes the variability in aging and explains why two people of the same chronological age may look very different. Higher frailty leads to poor quality of life, disability, and death. Hospitalized patients living with frailty have a higher risk for functional decline, new impairments in activities of daily living, a longer hospital stay, hospital readmission, and death. A previous study from our team has reported that 60% of inpatients have more difficulty with 1+ basic activity of daily living (i.e., eating, getting out of bed, using the toilet, etc.) after hospitalization compared to pre-admission, with 1-in-4 patients having difficulty with 3+ basic tasks. Patients with few health deficits can recover to their pre-admission level, but those with higher frailty levels cannot, priming them for readmissions. Physical activity and reducing time spent sitting or lying postures prevent and improve frailty. Older patients who walk at least once/day outside their room during hospitalization have \\~1.7 days shorter length of hospital stay compared with those who stayed in their room. Although multiple barriers exist to promoting upright time in a hospital, strategies that help address patients' excessive time spent in bed are often not implemented but could attenuate the development of frailty in the hospital. Few exercise interventions in hospital studies have considered frailty. The investigators have conducted a clinical trial within the Halifax Infirmary (Nova Scotia Health) that focused on mobilizing patients (average age: \\~75 years) via regular visits by a Kinesiologist and observed that the intervention groups reduced their frailty level from preadmission and admission versus discharge. While preliminary findings from this model were promising, its reach was limited to acute geriatric care and dependent upon researchers to conduct the intervention. At the Georges-L. Dumont hospital, a patient mobilization program has been introduced in General and Internal Medicine (floor 4C) that embedded Kinesiologists within care to visit patients daily. Preliminary findings indicate that patients and staff are enjoying the program via self-report questionnaire. However, evaluations of the program's effectiveness in changing objectively measured activity and frailty levels and whether multiple patient visits would be more effective (e.g., refining the program) are unclear. The investigators propose to evaluate the effectiveness of the existing patient mobilization program and if more patient contact improves outcomes. Our study integrates activity monitoring technology and frailty assessments to help patients leave the hospital healthier and decrease the risk of readmission. Study Objectives: The proposed study will test the hypothesis that, compared to usual care (Kinesiology visit once/day), patients who receive multiple check-ins will, 1) increase their step counts and upright time, 2) decrease their frailty level, and 3) have a less length of…","overall_status":"Recruiting","phases":[],"study_type":"INTERVENTIONAL","sponsor":"Université de Sherbrooke","enrollment":80,"countries":["Canada"],"start_date":"2025-01-13","completion_date":"2026-08-30","last_update_date":"2026-04-29","source_url":"https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06802289","editorial_summary":"A registered study indexed because it matched monitored longevity research terms. Registry status: Recruiting. Registration does not establish safety or effectiveness.","first_seen_at":"2026-09-25T01:20:20.087268+00:00","last_seen_at":"2026-09-25T06:10:07.378+00:00","metadata":{"sex":"ALL","acronym":null,"age_range":"50 Years","comparator":"Usual Care Control","organization":"Université de Sherbrooke","interventions":["Mobility promotion"],"registry_source":"ClinicalTrials.gov","outcome_measures":["Severity of Frailty — At enrollment and at the end of treatment, approximately 2 weeks","Accumulation of Physical Activity & Postures in Hospital — From enrollment through to the end of treatment, approximate…","Hospital Length of Stay — This will be derived at discharge of patient from the hospital (at least 3-days)","Rate of Hospital Readmissions — Hospital readmissions within 30 days will be quantified by medical records one-month af…"],"design_description":"RANDOMIZED · PARALLEL · HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH · DOUBLE","source_has_results":false},"controlled_terms":["Frailty at Older Adults","Mobility promotion"],"relevance_confidence":100,"source_quality_score":100,"freshness_score":100,"publication_state":"published","match_explanation":"Title contains controlled term: frailty.","quality_checked_at":"2026-09-25T06:10:20.034853+00:00","duplicate_cluster_key":"id:nct06802289","duplicate_of_id":null,"evidence_snapshot":{"status":"structured","version":1,"duration":"2025-01-13 to 2026-08-30","comparator":"Usual Care Control","confidence":"structured-source","population":"ALL · 50 Years","provenance":{"duration":"start_date and completion_date","comparator":"registry arm fields","population":"registry eligibility fields","intervention":"registry intervention fields","participants":"enrollment","study_design":"study_type and registry design fields","evidence_stage":"phases","reported_outcome":"not available","outcomes_measured":"registry outcome-measure fields"},"generated_at":"2026-09-25T06:10:07.440Z","intervention":["Mobility promotion"],"participants":80,"study_design":"RANDOMIZED · PARALLEL · HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH · DOUBLE","subject_scope":"Human clinical study registration","evidence_stage":"Phase not reported","safety_context":"Eligibility, adverse-event details, and clinical decisions must be checked in the official registry and with qualified clinicians.","source_support":"Structured registry protocol metadata; no finding-level conclusion is generated.","main_limitation":"This is a study registration. No reusable structured result is available here, so it cannot show whether the intervention worked or was safe.","reported_outcome":null,"outcomes_measured":["Severity of Frailty — At enrollment and at the end of treatment, approximately 2 weeks","Accumulation of Physical Activity & Postures in Hospital — From enrollment through to the end of treatment, approximate…","Hospital Length of Stay — This will be derived at discharge of patient from the hospital (at least 3-days)","Rate of Hospital Readmissions — Hospital readmissions within 30 days will be quantified by medical records one-month af…"],"regulatory_context":"Trial registration is not regulatory approval and does not establish that an intervention is available."},"clinical_trial_topics":[{"topic_slug":"frailty","is_published":true,"match_reasons":["Title contains controlled term: frailty.","Abstract contains controlled term: frailty.","Source terminology contains: frailty.","Title supplies longevity context: frailty, frail.","Study type is explicitly identified as INTERVENTIONAL."],"matched_fields":["title","abstract","controlled terminology","title context","study type"],"relevance_score":100,"intelligence_topics":{"name":"Frailty","slug":"frailty"}}],"content_sources":{"name":"ClinicalTrials.gov","homepage_url":"https://clinicaltrials.gov/"}},"canonical_url":"https://www.immortal.life/trials/34878","automation_disclosure":"Generated automatically from cited source metadata. 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