Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Mentored multimodal prehabilitation for aortic aneurysm surgery: a pilot randomised controlled trial
Authors' conclusion
The primary feasibility targets were partially met in terms of recruitment, retention, wearing of trackers, workshop attendance and completion of follow up procedures. However, the participants did not achieve 30% more activity in the workshop groups compared to the control group.
Study context
- Population
- Adults scheduled for elective open or endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair43 in ITT analyses
- Participants
- 45 adults
- Comparison
- Mentored or non-mentored multimodal prehabilitation vs standard practice
- Primary endpoint
- Feasibility: recruitment, retention to 8-week follow-up, adherence (trackers worn >80% of time, workshop attendance, 30% more activity in intervention groups vs control), blinding of outcome assessor
- Follow-up
- eight-week follow-up
Methodological detailsfeasibility, assessor-blinded, parallel-group, three-arm
- Feasibility
- Assessor-blinded
- Parallel-group
- Three-arm
Primary result
As reported in the abstract
Feasibility outcomes
Screened patients recruited
45 of 60
75%
Participants attending eight-week follow-up
40 of 43
93.0%
Participants wearing trackers for >80% of the time
23 of 43
53.5%
Secondary outcomes
Secondary patient outcomes (complications, mortality, LOS, quality of life, function)
- No significant differences
Original publication
Mentored multimodal prehabilitation for aortic aneurysm surgery: a pilot randomised controlled trial. Perioper Med (Lond). Published 22 November 2025. doi:10.
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