Digital Prehabilitation for Patients Undergoing Major Elective Surgery

Recruitment rate,Uptake,Screen-pass rate,Adherence,Compliance,Retention,Safety (adverse events),Acceptability

Prehabilitation describes the process of improving someone's functional capacity before major
 surgery. Prehabilitation commonly focuses on exercise training, as fitness level is a
 predictor of surgical outcomes - the fitter you are before surgery, the lower the risk of
 complications after surgery. Typically, exercise training is done at the hospital, but
 research shows that patients would prefer to do prehabilitation exercises in their home.
 
 The goal of this study is to test the feasibility of an online prehabilitation programme made
 by PreActiv, which can be accessed at home via a website by patients who are awaiting major
 surgery. PreActiv's prehabilitation programme is six weeks long, and involves three 35-minute
 exercise sessions per week, with each session including a warm-up, cardio exercises, muscle
 strengthening exercises, and breathing exercises. Information from this pilot study on the
 number of exercise sessions attended (adherence) and the number of patients who complete the
 study (retention) will be used to decide whether we should progress to a larger study that
 assesses the effectiveness of PreActiv's prehabilitation.