Preoperative Physical Activity Improvement with the Use of Activity Trackers in Patients Undergoing Radical Cystectomy-A Bicentric, Open-label, Randomised Controlled Trial: A Clinical Study Protocol of the PreAct Trial

Johannes Hermann Kilz; Marie Angela Sidoti Abate; Victoria Luise Simone Wieland; Luisa Egen; Caelan Max Haney; Aleksander Antoniewicz; Alexander Studier-Fischer; Thomas Stefan Worst; Maurice Stephan Michel; Patrick Honeck; Niklas Westhoff; Maximilian Christian Kriegmair; Karl-Friedrich Kowalewski

doi:10.1016/j.euros.2024.11.003

Preoperative Physical Activity Improvement with the Use of Activity Trackers in Patients Undergoing Radical Cystectomy-A Bicentric, Open-label, Randomised Controlled Trial: A Clinical Study Protocol of the PreAct Trial

Eur Urol Open Sci. 2024 Dec 10:71:78-86. doi: 10.1016/j.euros.2024.11.003. eCollection 2025 Jan.

Authors

Johannes Hermann Kilz¹, Marie Angela Sidoti Abate¹, Victoria Luise Simone Wieland¹, Luisa Egen^{1

2

3}, Caelan Max Haney^{2

3

4}, Aleksander Antoniewicz⁵, Alexander Studier-Fischer^{1

2

3}, Thomas Stefan Worst¹, Maurice Stephan Michel¹, Patrick Honeck¹, Niklas Westhoff^{1

2

3}, Maximilian Christian Kriegmair⁵, Karl-Friedrich Kowalewski^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology and Urological Surgery, University Medical Center Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
² Division of Intelligent Systems and Robotics in Urology (ISRU), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
³ DKFZ Hector Cancer Institute at the University Medical Center Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
⁴ Department of Urology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
⁵ Urological Hospital Munich-Planegg, Munich, Germany.

Abstract

This study protocol shows the structured design of the randomised controlled phase 3 "PreAct" trial. It hypothesises the use of a fitness tracker-based prehabilitation programme to increase the physical activity of patients prior to radical cystectomy, as measured by the average number of steps per day.