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Walking All over COVID-19: The Rapid Development of STRIDE in Your Room, an Innovative Approach to Enhance a Hospital-Based Walking Program during the Pandemic

Hospitalization is common among older adults. Prolonged time in bed during hospitalization can lead to deconditioning and functional impairments. Our team is currently working with Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers across the United States to implement STRIDE (assiSTed eaRly mobIli...

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Autores principales: Hughes, Jaime M., Bartle, John T., Choate, Ashley L., Mahanna, Elizabeth P., Meyer, Cassie L., Tucker, Matthew C., Wang, Virginia, Allen, Kelli D., Van Houtven, Courtney H., Hastings, Susan Nicole
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8628728/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34842733
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics6040109
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author Hughes, Jaime M.
Bartle, John T.
Choate, Ashley L.
Mahanna, Elizabeth P.
Meyer, Cassie L.
Tucker, Matthew C.
Wang, Virginia
Allen, Kelli D.
Van Houtven, Courtney H.
Hastings, Susan Nicole
author_facet Hughes, Jaime M.
Bartle, John T.
Choate, Ashley L.
Mahanna, Elizabeth P.
Meyer, Cassie L.
Tucker, Matthew C.
Wang, Virginia
Allen, Kelli D.
Van Houtven, Courtney H.
Hastings, Susan Nicole
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description Hospitalization is common among older adults. Prolonged time in bed during hospitalization can lead to deconditioning and functional impairments. Our team is currently working with Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers across the United States to implement STRIDE (assiSTed eaRly mobIlity for hospitalizeD older vEterans), a hospital-based walking program designed to mitigate the risks of immobility during hospitalization. However, the COVID-19 pandemic made in-person, or face-to-face, walking challenging due to social distancing recommendations and infection control concerns. In response, our team applied principles of implementation science, including stakeholder engagement, prototype development and refinement, and rapid dissemination and feedback, to create STRIDE in Your Room (SiYR). Consisting of self-guided exercises, light exercise equipment (e.g., TheraBands, stress ball, foam blocks, pedometer), the SiYR program provided safe alternative activities when face-to-face walking was not available during the pandemic. We describe the methods used in developing the SiYR program; present feedback from participating sites; and share initial implementation experiences, lessons learned, and future directions.
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spelling pubmed-86287282021-11-30 Walking All over COVID-19: The Rapid Development of STRIDE in Your Room, an Innovative Approach to Enhance a Hospital-Based Walking Program during the Pandemic Hughes, Jaime M. Bartle, John T. Choate, Ashley L. Mahanna, Elizabeth P. Meyer, Cassie L. Tucker, Matthew C. Wang, Virginia Allen, Kelli D. Van Houtven, Courtney H. Hastings, Susan Nicole Geriatrics (Basel) Article Hospitalization is common among older adults. Prolonged time in bed during hospitalization can lead to deconditioning and functional impairments. Our team is currently working with Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers across the United States to implement STRIDE (assiSTed eaRly mobIlity for hospitalizeD older vEterans), a hospital-based walking program designed to mitigate the risks of immobility during hospitalization. However, the COVID-19 pandemic made in-person, or face-to-face, walking challenging due to social distancing recommendations and infection control concerns. In response, our team applied principles of implementation science, including stakeholder engagement, prototype development and refinement, and rapid dissemination and feedback, to create STRIDE in Your Room (SiYR). Consisting of self-guided exercises, light exercise equipment (e.g., TheraBands, stress ball, foam blocks, pedometer), the SiYR program provided safe alternative activities when face-to-face walking was not available during the pandemic. We describe the methods used in developing the SiYR program; present feedback from participating sites; and share initial implementation experiences, lessons learned, and future directions. MDPI 2021-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8628728/ /pubmed/34842733 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics6040109 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Bartle, John T.
Choate, Ashley L.
Mahanna, Elizabeth P.
Meyer, Cassie L.
Tucker, Matthew C.
Wang, Virginia
Allen, Kelli D.
Van Houtven, Courtney H.
Hastings, Susan Nicole
Walking All over COVID-19: The Rapid Development of STRIDE in Your Room, an Innovative Approach to Enhance a Hospital-Based Walking Program during the Pandemic
title Walking All over COVID-19: The Rapid Development of STRIDE in Your Room, an Innovative Approach to Enhance a Hospital-Based Walking Program during the Pandemic
title_full Walking All over COVID-19: The Rapid Development of STRIDE in Your Room, an Innovative Approach to Enhance a Hospital-Based Walking Program during the Pandemic
title_fullStr Walking All over COVID-19: The Rapid Development of STRIDE in Your Room, an Innovative Approach to Enhance a Hospital-Based Walking Program during the Pandemic
title_full_unstemmed Walking All over COVID-19: The Rapid Development of STRIDE in Your Room, an Innovative Approach to Enhance a Hospital-Based Walking Program during the Pandemic
title_short Walking All over COVID-19: The Rapid Development of STRIDE in Your Room, an Innovative Approach to Enhance a Hospital-Based Walking Program during the Pandemic
title_sort walking all over covid-19: the rapid development of stride in your room, an innovative approach to enhance a hospital-based walking program during the pandemic
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8628728/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34842733
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics6040109
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