Influence of the Culture Care Program on Patient Mobility After Thoracic or Abdominal Surgery: a Mixed-methods Study

NCT ID: NCT06893848

Last Updated: 2025-03-25

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 204 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-03-10
• Study Completion Date: 2026-09-30

Brief Summary

A sedentary behavior in the postoperative phase has a negative impact on recovery from various types of surgery (e.g. abdominal, pulmonary, cardiac or esophageal). In fact, sedentary behavior in the days following surgery is associated with an increased risk of postoperative complications, longer hospital stays and, consequently, higher healthcare costs. Stimulating early mobilization and increasing the level of physical activity after surgery therefore remains a relevant current challenge. The Culture Care program will propose a new experience of the hospital towards an attractive and stimulating intrahospital environment, including art and culture. The hypothesis is that the innovative, positive hospital experience offered by the Culture Care program could contribute to increasing patients' mobility in the postoperative phase and thus reduce the sedentary behaviour compared with a control group included before the implementation of the program.

The aim of this study is to explore the effect of the Culture Care program (Control group versus Culture Care group) on the mobility of patients hospitalized after thoracic or abdominal surgery, by determining the level of prediction in relation to the influencing covariates reported in the literature.

The first quantitative part of this research project will compare the mobility of patients hospitalized after surgery, before (control group) and after the implementation of the Culture Care program (Culture Care group). Patients will be asked to wear an accelerometer for the first five post-operative days, and to complete three questionnaires (psychological well-being, physical recovery, perception of their mobility).

Healthcare workers will be asked to complete a survey on their readiness to stimulate patients' mobility before and after the Culture Care program.

The second part will be qualitative including individual semi-structured interviews with patients and healthcare workers during the Culture Care program, to gather their experiences.

Conditions

Thoracic Surgery; Abdominal Surgery Patients; Hospital Mobility; Mobility Limitation

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Control group of patients

Patients hospitalized after thoracic or abdominal surgery in a conventional in-hospital environment (not modified, before the implementation of the Culture Care program). Patients will receive standard of care, including early mobilization prescribed by the physician according to the ERAS guidelines.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Culture Care group of patients

Patients hospitalized after thoracic or abdominal surgery in an in-hospital environment modernized by the Culture Care program. As with control patients, patients in the Culture Care group will receive the similar standard of care, including early mobilization prescribed by the physician according to the ERAS guidelines.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Culture Care program

Intervention Type: OTHER

The Culture Care program modernizes the in-hospital environment by including art and culture proposed in the form of an individualized pathway. It will be offered primarily to hospitalized patients, but also available to families, caregivers and healthcare professionals. It will aim to create a new hospital experience, different from the one we've always known.

The Culture Care program will display posters illustrating works of art (paintings, drawings, photographs, etc.) along the hallways. These posters will be interactive, so that a QR code can be scanned to access musical content and audio podcasts (interviews and documentaries) accessible via bone-conduction headphones.

The Culture Care program is likely to reduce the sedentary behavior of hospitalized patients, by providing an attractive in-hospital environment that is likely to produce both physical and psychological benefits.

Control group of healthcare workers

Healthcare workers working in the surgical units, with a conventional in-hospital environment (before implementation of the Culture Care program)

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Culture Care group of healthcare workers

Healthcare workers working in the surgical units, with an in-hospital environment modernized by the Culture Care program

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Culture Care program

Intervention Type: OTHER

The Culture Care program modernizes the in-hospital environment by including art and culture proposed in the form of an individualized pathway. It will be offered primarily to hospitalized patients, but also available to families, caregivers and healthcare professionals. It will aim to create a new hospital experience, different from the one we've always known.

The Culture Care program will display posters illustrating works of art (paintings, drawings, photographs, etc.) along the hallways. These posters will be interactive, so that a QR code can be scanned to access musical content and audio podcasts (interviews and documentaries) accessible via bone-conduction headphones.

The Culture Care program is likely to reduce the sedentary behavior of hospitalized patients, by providing an attractive in-hospital environment that is likely to produce both physical and psychological benefits.

Interventions

Culture Care program

The Culture Care program modernizes the in-hospital environment by including art and culture proposed in the form of an individualized pathway. It will be offered primarily to hospitalized patients, but also available to families, caregivers and healthcare professionals. It will aim to create a new hospital experience, different from the one we've always known.

The Culture Care program will display posters illustrating works of art (paintings, drawings, photographs, etc.) along the hallways. These posters will be interactive, so that a QR code can be scanned to access musical content and audio podcasts (interviews and documentaries) accessible via bone-conduction headphones.

The Culture Care program is likely to reduce the sedentary behavior of hospitalized patients, by providing an attractive in-hospital environment that is likely to produce both physical and psychological benefits.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Admission to Surgical Units in the Surgical Department of the Hôpital de Neuchâtel implementing the Culture Care program.
• Elective thoracic or abdominal surgery with an expected hospital stay of at least 2 days (i.e. discharge on postoperative day 3).
• Neurocognitive and physical ability to complete questionnaires and individual participation in the Culture Care program.
• Full capacity of discernment and signed informed consent to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria

• Outpatient surgery.
• Emergency surgery.
• Mobility severely impaired prior to surgery: patients with 1 or 2 lower-limb amputations, patients with wheelchair mobility only, neurodegenerative diseases.
• Bed restiction between POD 1 and POD 5 for medical reasons, i.e. surgery, post-operative complications or other pre-existing cardiorespiratory, neurological or orthopedic reasons.
• Transfer to ICU
• Only during the Culture Care phase, an unplanned transfer to another unit that does not have the Culture Care program (e.g. Medicine units).
• Technical problem with the accelerometer (e.g. disfunctioning battery).
• Allergic reaction to any dressing used to attach the accelerometer.
• End-of-life patients.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Haute Ecole ARC Sante

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Dugernier Jonathan

Dr

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Hôpital de Neuchâtel

Neuchâtel, , Switzerland

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Switzerland

Central Contacts

Jonathan Dugernier, PhD

Role: CONTACT

jonathan.dugernier@he-arc.ch

0783057932 ext. +41

Facility Contacts

Marc-Olivier Sauvain, MD PhD

Role: primary

Marc-olivier.sauvain@rhne.ch

079 559 49 81 ext. +41

Other Identifiers

Study 2024-02620

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id