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- Clinical Trial NCT06042491
The STRIVE Before Surgery Pilot Trial
The STRIVE Before Surgery Pilot Trial: a Vanguard Pragmatic Multicenter Randomized Trial of Structured TRaining to Improve Fitness in a Virtual Environment (STRIVE) Before Surgery
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Background: The number of people presenting for surgery, and their risk profile, are increasing. People presenting for surgery face substantial risk of postoperative adverse events. Fifteen to 30% of patients suffer a serious medical or surgical complication after surgery, and 1 in 5 develop a new patient-reported disability that reflects a loss of independence in day-to-day life. More than 1.4 million inpatient surgical procedures are performed in Canada each year. Globally, >300 million surgical procedures occur annually. As an increasing number of people present for surgery, the average risk profile of this population is rising. Surgical patients are typically older and live with comorbidity. This means that strategies to improve patient outcomes and reduce resource utilization are urgently needed. Patients, the public, clinicians, and policy makers participating in 2 separate James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships (Canada & UK) identified prehabilitation as a Top 10 priority for perioperative research. Furthermore, prehabilitation is currently discussed in the popular media as a strategy to improve outcomes for the growing number of high-risk patients presenting for surgery.
Overarching Aim: The STRIVE Before Surgery Trial will evaluate three pragmatic elements (recruitment, adherence, and follow-up) that our experience in prehabilitation research demonstrate are necessary to support successful, large-scale evaluation. The investigators will concurrently use implementation science methodology to further refine processes for the larger trial. As this is a vanguard pilot trial, data from this trial will be combined with the future, large-scale trial.
Methods:
Design, setting and participants: The STRIVE Before Surgery Trial is an assessor blinded multicenter individual patient parallel-arm vanguard pragmatic randomized controlled trial.
People => 18 years old having inpatient abdominal, thoracic, pelvic, head-and-neck or vascular surgery with expected length of stay of => 2 days will be included.
Intervention: The intervention includes 3 aspects (exercise, nutrition and breathing). Our intervention is a home-based multimodal prehabilitation program supported through an online platform.
Outcomes and sample size: Primary outcomes are monthly recruitment, intervention adherence, retention, and elicitation of patient, clinician and researcher-identified barriers. Secondary outcomes are days at home in the 30 days after surgery, survival, length of stay, patient safety indicators, intensive care unit admission, non-home discharge, readmission, emergency department visits, and health system costs. Our vanguard trial sample size estimate is informed by a power calculation for the future large-scale trial. For the vanguard trial, a sample size of 144 directly links to our 3 feasibility outcomes: 1) recruitment of 144 participants over 8-10 months at our 5 sites will demonstrate our ability to average 2-4 participants per site per month.
Expertise: Our team features multidisciplinary clinical and methodological experts, nationally representative knowledge users and patient representatives.
Expected outcomes: Knowledge gained from our vanguard trial will directly inform the larger pragmatic trial, which will be powered to detect a minimally important difference in a patient-reported outcome.
Study Type
Enrollment (Estimated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Emily Hladkowicz, PhD
- Phone Number: 18629 613-798-5555
- Email: emhladkowicz@toh.ca
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Karina Branje, MSc
- Phone Number: 79322 613-798-5555
- Email: kbranje@ohri.ca
Study Locations
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Ontario
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1H 8L6
- Recruiting
- The Ottawa Hospital
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Contact:
- Karina Branje, MSc
- Phone Number: 79322 613-798-5555
- Email: kbranje@ohri.ca
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Adult
- Older Adult
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age ≥18 years
- Scheduled, or on the pathway, for inpatient abdominal, thoracic, pelvic, head-and-neck or vascular surgery
- Expected surgery date between 3 and 12 weeks from enrollment
- Valid provincial health insurance number
- Access to internet-enabled device
- Email address
Exclusion Criteria:
- Inability to read and communicate in English
- Cognitive impairment preventing ability to provide informed consent independently
- No telephone/cell phone
- Cardiac, neurological or orthopedic procedure
- Surgery with no curative intent (palliative surgery)
- Patient not interested in participating in the context of their Telephone Assessment of Physical Activity (TAPA) score
Any of the following cardiovascular conditions:
- Severe valvular heart disease that limits a patient's ability to ambulate on level ground, or is associated with syncope or dyspnea
- Severe cardiac dysrhythmias that limit a patient's ability to ambulate on level ground, or is associated with syncope or dyspnea
- Recent myocardial infarction (within 6 weeks prior to enrollment - based on the Heart and Stroke Foundation's Heart Walk program)
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: Single
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Intervention
The intervention includes 3 aspects (exercise, nutrition and breathing).
Our intervention is a home-based multimodal prehabilitation program supported through an online platform.
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The intervention consists of exercise, nutritional support and breathing techniques.
The exercise component consists of 1) strength training; 2) cardio and 3) stretching.
Participants will be encouraged to complete self-directed and/or group sessions >= 3 times per week.
Each intervention participant will be provided a unique login to the virtual prehabilitation platform, which is the STRIVE Trial website.
The nutrition component includes: 1) protein supplementation; 2) nutrition advice to support healthy eating.
For the breathing component, participants will be encouraged to watch the video on Inspiratory Muscle Training (IMT) which involves diaphragmatic breathing and coughing/huffing.
They will also be provided with an instruction booklet to take to hospital with them to support postoperative conduct of IMT during early recovery.
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No Intervention: Control
To support blinding, improve enrollment and reflect usual care, widely available physical activity (World Health Organization Recommendations for Physical Activity for ages 18-64 and >65) and healthy eating recommendations (Canada's Food Guide Snapshot) documents will be provided to control participants (without active or online support).
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Intervention adherence
Time Frame: pre-surgery
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The proportion of prescribed prehabilitation tasks adhered to
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pre-surgery
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Retention
Time Frame: 1 month, year 1
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The proportion of participants retained at 30-day patient-reported follow up will be calculated with a 95% confidence interval based on Wilson's method.
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1 month, year 1
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Elicitation of patient, clinician and researcher-identified barriers
Time Frame: 1 year
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For each target group, the frequency of domains identified as barriers will be calculated.
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1 year
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Monthly recruitment
Time Frame: 1 year
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Recruited patients per center per month will be analyzed descriptively to generate a mean and standard deviation.
Recruitment feasibility will be judged based on criteria pre-established that consider the number of available, committed sites in Ontario.
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1 year
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Patient-reported disability using the World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS) (to be merged with larger trial)
Time Frame: 1 month, 3 month, 1 year
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The WHODAS is a patient-reported disability scale that assesses limitations in six major life domains (i.e., cognition, mobility, self-care, social interaction, life activities, participation in society).
Each questionnaire item is scored on a Likert scale ranging from 0 to 4. The sum of the responses is the WHODAS Disability Score (range: 0 to 48), which is expressed as a percentage of the maximum possible score
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1 month, 3 month, 1 year
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Days at home (to be merged with larger trial)
Time Frame: 1 month, year 1
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A count of days at home in the 30-days after surgery is a validated patient-centered outcome that can be ascertained from routinely collected data
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1 month, year 1
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Survival (to be merged with larger trial)
Time Frame: 1 year
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All cause deaths and survival time in the 30-days and year after surgery will be captured from vital statistics
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1 year
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Length of Stay (to be merged with larger trial)
Time Frame: 1 year
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Days from surgical admission to discharge
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1 year
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Patient Safety Events (to be merged with larger trial)
Time Frame: 1 year
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A validated set of in-hospital patient safety indicators will be captured from the index hospitalization record
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1 year
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Intensive care unit admission (to be merged with larger trial)
Time Frame: 1 year
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Intensive care unit admission captured by administrative data
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1 year
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Non-home discharge (to be merged with larger trial)
Time Frame: 1 year
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Discharge from the index hospitalization via transfer to a non-home location or death
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1 year
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Re-admission (to be merged with larger trial)
Time Frame: 1 month, year 1
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Number of re-admissions to hospital
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1 month, year 1
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Emergency department visits (to be merged with larger trial)
Time Frame: 1 month, year 1
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Number of emergency department visits
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1 month, year 1
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Health system costs (to be merged with larger trial)
Time Frame: 1 month, 1 year
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A validated patient-level costing algorithm will be used to capture all health system costs accrued within 30-days and 1-year after surgery
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1 month, 1 year
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Health Related Quality of Life using the EQ-5D-5L (to be merged with larger trial)
Time Frame: 1 month, 3 month, 1 year
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EQ-5D-5L will be used to capture health related quality of life at baseline, pre-op, 30, 90, and 365 days after surgery.
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1 month, 3 month, 1 year
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Collaborators and Investigators
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Daniel McIsaac, MD, The Ottawa Hospital
Study record dates
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Other Study ID Numbers
- CTO - 4479
Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)
Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?
IPD Plan Description
IPD Sharing Time Frame
IPD Sharing Access Criteria
IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type
- SAP
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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