NCT05736484Active, not recruiting
Randomized Clinical Trial to Improve Mobility After Hospitalization
The MOVE ON Trial: A Randomized Trial of Gamification and Coaching to Improve Mobility After Hospitalization
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 14 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The objective of this study is to test the feasibility of using behavioral economic interventions (gamification with social incentives) to increase physical activity after hospital discharge to reduce incident mobility disability among older adults.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 350 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 6 Feb 2023
- Start date
- 19 Sept 2023
- Primary completion date
- 1 Jul 2026
- Lead sponsor
- University of Pennsylvania
- Diseases
- Heart failure, High blood pressure
- NCT number
- NCT05736484
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 350
- From 19 Sept 2023 to the primary completion date, 1 Jul 2026
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Other illness
- Any other medical conditions that would prohibit participation in a 6-month physical activity program
Lab values
- Unable to complete the baseline period (must have at least 4 out of 7 days of step data with minimum step count of 1000 steps/day)
Other
- Inability to provide informed consent
- Does not have daily access to a smartphone compatible with the wearable device and is not willing to use a device that the investigators can provide participants' with
- Already enrolled in another physical activity study
- Low mobility score indicating that the patient is not able to walk distances greater than 1000 steps/day independently
- Not willing to use the wearable device for the full duration of the study
- Enrolled in hospice
Who the study is looking for
- Age 50 years or older
- Admitted to the University of Pennsylvania Health System acute care hospital (Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Pennsylvania Hospital, Lancaster General Health, Chester County Hospital, or Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center) and discharged to home
- Able to ambulate independently
Age in the registry: 50 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blockley Hall Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Philadelphia | United States | Unknown status |
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