Journal article
Patterns of Objectively Measured Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity and Their Association with Changes in Physical and Functional Performance in Geriatric Rehabilitation Inpatients
AGM Rojer, KA Ramsey, MC Trappenburg, CGM Meskers, JWR Twisk, R Goonan, C Marston, J Kay, WK Lim, A Turbić, L Island, L Denehy, SM Parry, EM Reijnierse, M Pijnappels, AB Maier
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association | Published : 2023
Abstract
Objectives: To examine whether The Ending PyJama (PJ) Paralysis campaign, focused on increasing in-hospital physical activity, affects objectively measured sedentary behavior and physical activity patterns and if these are associated with changes in physical and functional performance in geriatric rehabilitation inpatients. Design: Quasi-experimental study. Setting and Participants: Within the REStORing health of acutely unwell adulTs (RESORT) observational, longitudinal cohort of geriatric rehabilitation inpatients, the Ending PJ Paralysis campaign was implemented on 2 out of 4 wards. Methods: Objectively measured sedentary behavior and physical activity were measured by an inertial sensor ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This research was funded by an unrestricted grant of the University of Melbourne received by Prof. Andrea B. Maier and the Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) provided by the Melbourne Academic Center for Health (MACH) . This work was supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program PreventIT (grant agreement number 689238) . The funders had no role in the design, execution, analysis and interpretation of data, or writing of the study.