Understanding the Implementation of Cued Exercise Using Wearable Devices and a Custom Smartphone Application Following Bone Marrow Transplant.

Arms (1)

1. type

   EXPERIMENTAL

   label

   Reminders to exercise through cues provided by wearable device + custom smartphone application

   description

   Each participant receives 2 wearable devices and custom smartphone application. Participants will wear an activity monitor on their non-dominant wrist and contralateral ankle. Post-transplant inpatient days \~3-10, participants will schedule three cued exercise sessions each day using the smartphone application. At the scheduled time, the wearable devices will vibrate to indicate "time to exercise" and participants are encouraged to complete an exercise task for 15 minutes. Post-transplant inpatient hospital days \~1-2 and post-transplant inpatient hospital days \~11 until discharge patients will wear the devices but will not receive any cues. During these days, the monitors will only be measuring their movement without any intervention.

   interventionNames

   1. Behavioral: exercise intervention

Primary outcomes (2)

1. measure

   Pilot evaluation of intervention efficacy

   timeFrame

   cumulative percent from day 1 through discharge from hospital, on average day 30

   description

   Efficacy will be evaluated by examining the percentage of time participants responded to the cued exercise prompts.