Barriers and facilitators to physical activity for transplant people
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Barriers and facilitators to physical activity for transplant recipients; developing a Patient and Public Involvement and engagement framework (PA-PPI)
IRAS ID
341913
Contact name
Bart Rienties
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
The Open University
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 6 months, 30 days
Research summary
This Open Societal Challenge build project builds on a pilot study conducted in 2023 entitled Multiple and Multi-dimensional Life Transitions of World Transplant Athletes (HREC/4787/Rienties). Solid organ transplant surgery (e.g., heart, kidney, lung, liver) and hematopoietic cell transplants (e.g., bone marrow) are life-saving medical procedures. Annually around 130,000 transplant surgeries take place globally (Leddington Wright et al., 2019). Several studies have, however, reported that most transplant recipients do not meet the recommended amount and type of Physical Activity (PA), thereby limiting their wellbeing and long-term health (Leddington Wright et al., 2019; Rienties et al., Submitted; van Adrichem et al., 2016; Wiltshire et al., 2022).
Using Patient and Public Involvement and engagement (PPI), this “build” Open Societal Challenge (OSC) aims to explore the lived experiences of transplant recipients, across a spectrum of PA levels, and their support environment in becoming and remaining physically active. By focussing on a minimum of 5 transplant recipients and their social/medical support networks from the broader Milton Keynes area and a minimum of 5 transplant recipients from Australia our first main contribution to the transplant community, medical professionals and wider society is to explore what transplant recipients are able to achieve in terms of PA.
Our main second contribution is that this OSC will be designed, implemented, and evaluated together with transplant recipients in order to build a PPI framework for appropriate PA. As argued by Holmes et al. (2019) PPI is an important and expected component of health-related research activity, but there seems to be a complete paucity of PPI in OSC. Therefore, our main OSC is: Using Patient and Public Involvement and engagement what are the barriers and facilitators to physical activity of transplant recipients, and what social and medical support structures can encourage PA (PA-PPI)?REC name
East Midlands - Derby Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
24/EM/0093
Date of REC Opinion
22 Apr 2024
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion