Overview of the baseline screening measures
| Measures | Assessment method |
| Inclusion criteria | |
| Patients treated in ward 3DK of the Division of General Medical Rehabilitation | During the first meeting with the research assistant |
| ≥18 years of age | |
| Can comply with study protocol | |
| Able to provide a written consent | |
| Exclusion criterion | |
| Contraindication to PA in the view of the health status | During the first meeting with the research assistant |
| Additional baseline screening assessment | |
| Medical evaluation (questionnaires and objective tests) | Patients’ diseases and treatment characteristics (medical burden, comorbidity, body mass index, mobility test, functional independence, health-related quality of life) |
| Sociodemographic characteristics | Questionnaires (age, sex, height, weight) |
| Usual level of PA | Saltin-Grimby PA Level Scale.81 |
| Personality | Ten-Item Personality Inventory.82 |
| Expectations for improvement | A questionnaire measuring patients’ thoughts about the effects of the intervention (three items: ‘to what extent do you think that your physical activity behaviors will improve as a result of training on the computerized task?’; ‘to what extent do you think that your mental health will improve as a result of training on the computerized task?’; ‘to what extent do you think that your physical health will improve as a result of training on the computerized task?’).67 |
| Self-reported motivation to change | Questionnaire measuring patients’ motivation to change their condition (two items: ‘how motivated are you to change your health condition?’; ‘to what extent do you really want to change your health condition?’), to avoid a new treatment (two items: ‘how motivated are you to avoid a new treatment because your health condition?’; ‘to what extent do you really want to avoid taking a new medication because of your health condition?’, and to engage in more PA in the future(two items: ‘I intend to carry out more physical activity in the next future’; I am determine to carry out more physical activity in the next future’).66 |
| Self-reported ability to implement daily-life PA | Questionnaire measuring patients’ self-reported ability to adopt regular PA in their daily life. Self-reported function in instrumental activities of daily life (ADL; seven items), in activities of daily living (ADL; seven items), and in mobility (three items).83 |
PA, physical activity.