🏛️ Verified NIH Record • Updated 2026-05-27

REmotely Monitored, Mobile Health Supported Multidomain Rehabilitation Program With High Intensity Interval Training for COVID-19 (NCT05218083)

🟢 Recruiting Observational / Diagnostic 🧠 Behavioral & Psychological Program Sponsor: Duke University

🩺 Plain-English Summary (8th-Grade Level)

Multicenter, prospective, randomized controlled trial providing mobile health supported physical rehabilitation to 120 patients who have been critically ill with COVID-19 and who complete at least one exercise session.

Who can join: To join this study, participants generally need to meet the listed inclusion criteria (4 items) and avoid the listed exclusions (18 items).

Location: University of Alabama at Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama

📋 "Do I Qualify?" — 1-Minute Self Screener

Instant Checklist

Check every box below. If you can check all of them, you may meet the study's basic screening requirements (final eligibility is confirmed by the site team).

Usually NOT eligible if any of the following apply:

  • Exclusion Criteria:
  • Hospital discharge \> 60 days unless readmitted to hospital in first 30 days, then 60 day window restarts and new exclusion is last hospital discharge \> 60 days
  • Not ambulating independently prior to COVID-19 illness (use of a gait aid permitted)
  • Functional impairment resulting in inability to exercise at baseline
  • Inability or unwillingness to comply with the study requirements or unable or unwilling to follow coaching via mobile-health iPhone interaction
  • Any absolute contraindications to exercise, including but not limited to:
  • Recent (\< 5 days) acute primary cardiac event
  • Unstable Angina
  • Uncontrolled dysrhythmias causing symptoms or hemodynamic compromise
  • Uncontrolled hypertension over 255 mmHg Systolic or 155 diastolic blood pressure
  • Symptomatic aortic stenosis
  • Uncontrolled symptomatic heart failure

🔍 Extracted verbatim from the official NIH eligibility criteria. Always confirm with the study coordinator.

📍 All Participating Trial Locations (5 Sites)

  • University of Alabama at Birmingham — Birmingham, Alabama
  • University of Kentucky — Lexington, Kentucky
  • Duke University Health System — Durham, North Carolina
  • The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center — Columbus, Ohio
  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center — Nashville, Tennessee

💰 Cost, Insurance & Patient Rights

  • 100% Free Items: The investigational treatment and protocol-required procedures are supplied at zero cost by the sponsor.
  • Routine Patient Care: Under federal law (ACA § 2709) and many state statutes, routine care costs are covered during participation.
  • Voluntary Participation: You may withdraw at any time without affecting your standard medical care.
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