Telehealth Exercise Intervention in Older Adults With HIV: Protocol of a Multisite Randomized Trial.
Krisann K Oursler, Vincent C Marconi, Brandon C Briggs and 2 others
PMID 33481463WHAT IT FOUND
No results yet.
This protocol plans a randomized trial of telehealth group exercise for older adults with HIV. It can show feasibility and fitness effects later, but cannot change patient care now.
Key findings
01This planned trial will randomize 80 older adults with HIV.
02The intervention is 12 weeks of telehealth high-intensity functional circuit exercise three times weekly.
03The planned primary outcome is cardiorespiratory fitness.
STILL TO COME
How it was doneWhat it means for PTs
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What it does not show
No outcomes have been measured or reported, so this paper provides no evidence of benefit or harm. The planned participants are sedentary veterans with HIV who have viral suppression and are receiving antiretroviral therapy, so results may not apply to people with unsuppressed HIV or other health systems. The exercise is supervised in VA rooms with a research coordinator, emergency equipment, and VA telehealth infrastructure, so it may not transfer to ordinary home-based telehealth exercise without safety monitoring.
Declared interests
The supplied publication types list NIH and U.S. government research support. No author conflict-of-interest statement is included in the article text.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat the detailed protocol as proof that telehealth exercise works. The paper reports no outcomes because the trial has not been completed.