What this means
This trial plans to test whether a home exercise program with a fitness tracker helps older patients before major surgery. It has not started recruiting, and no results have been posted yet, so it cannot show whether the program works.
Plain-English summary written by an AI model from the registry listing.
- Status
- Opening soon
- Who can join
- Ages 65 and over
- Where
- Not listed
The science
- Registered title
- PREhabilitation of Frail Elderly PAtients Undergoing majoR surgEry at HOME (PREPARE-HOME) Using Smart Wearables
- Trial ID
- NCT06633614 ↗
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Study type
- interventional
- Conditions
- Frailty Syndrome
- What is tested
- Supervised prehabilitation programme
- Sponsor
- Singapore General Hospital
- Ages
- 65 Years to no maximum
- Dates
- First posted Oct 9, 2024 · updated May 15, 2025
Registry summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate whether a prehabilitation program using wearable technology can improve physical function and postoperative outcomes in elderly patients (65 years or older) undergoing major elective non-cardiac surgery. The main questions it aims to answer are:
Does the prehabilitation program improve physical function, as measured by the 6-minute walk test (6MWT), from baseline to pre-surgery? Does the prehabilitation program reduce postoperative complications and enhance recovery? Researchers will compare participants who receive the prehabilitation program with wearable technology (intervention group) to those receiving standard preoperative care (control group) to see if the intervention results in greater improvements in physical function and postoperative outcomes.
Participants will:
Follow a personalized exercise program monitored remotely via telemedicine. Wear a Fitbit Aspire 3 device to track vital signs such as heart rate and physical activity.
Undergo assessments of physical function and quality of life before surgery.