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Accelerometry shows inpatients with acute medical or surgical conditions spend little time upright and are highly sedentary: systematic review

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Baldwin, Claire, van Kessel, Gisela, Phillips, Anna, Johnston, Kylie·2017·Physical Therapy

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Background: Physical inactivity and sedentary behaviors have significant and independent effects on health. The use of wearable monitors to measure these constructs in people who are hospitalized with an acute illness is rapidly expanding, but has not been systematically described. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to review the use of accelerometer monitoring with inpatients who are acutely ill, including what activity and sedentary behaviors have been measured and how active or sedentary inpatients are. Data Sources: Databases used were MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, and Scopus. Study Selection: Quantitative studies of adults with an acute medical or surgical hospital admission, on whom an accelerometer was used to measure a physical activity or sedentary behavior, were selected. Data Extraction and Data Synthesis: Procedures were completed independently by 2 reviewers, with differences resolved and cross-checked by a third reviewer. Forty-two studies were identified that recruited people who had medical diagnoses (n = 10), stroke (n = 5), critical illness (n = 3), acute exacerbations of lung disease (n = 7), cardiac conditions (n = 7), or who were postsurgery (n = 10). Physical activities or sedentary behaviors were reported in terms of time spent in a particular posture (lying/sitting, standing/stepping), active/inactive, or at a particular activity intensity. Physical activity was also reported as step count, number of episodes or postural transitions, and bouts. Inpatients spent 93% to 98.8% (range) of their hospital stay sedentary, and in most studies completed <1,000 steps/day despite up to 50 postural transitions/day. No study reported sedentary bouts. Many studies controlled for preadmission function as part of the recruitment strategy or analysis or both. Limitations: Heterogeneity in monitoring devices (17 models), protocols, and variable definitions limited comparability between studies and clinical groups to descriptive synthesis without meta-analysis. Conclusions: Hospitalized patients were highly inactive, especially those with medical admissions, based on time and step parameters. Accelerometer monitoring of sedentary behavior patterns was less reported and warrants further research.

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Authors
Baldwin, C., van Kessel, G., Phillips, A., & Johnston, K.
Affiliations
  • University of South Australia (AU)
  • G. van Kessel, BAppSci (Physiotherapy), DPH, Sansom Institute of Health Research, School of Health Sciences, Division of Health Sciences, University of South Australia.
Venue
Physical Therapy
Published
2017-07-25
Volume
97
Issue
11
Pages
1044-1065
ISSN
  • 0031-9023 (ISSN-L)
  • 1538-6724
OpenAlex
W2738846298
Cited by
111
References
85
Citations by year
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FWCI
0.97
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Physical Therapy (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UniSA Research Outputs Repository (University of South Australia) (acceptedVersion)
  • Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
University of South Australia
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine › Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
Keywords
sedentary behavior, physical activity, hospitalized patients, accelerometer monitoring, wearable activity trackers, posture, step count, postural transitions, acute conditions, surgical patients, physical inactivity
MeSH terms
Adult, Hospitalization, Humans, Posture, Exercise, Sedentary Behavior, Accelerometry

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