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Peer to Peer Mentoring: Facilitating Individuals With Early Inflammatory Arthritis to Manage Their Arthritis - Peer Mentor Training

NCT ID: NCT01054963

Last Updated: 2011-12-29

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

10 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2010-01-31

Study Completion Date

2011-12-31

Brief Summary

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Inflammatory arthritis (IA) is a major cause of long-term disability. Peer support may be a solution to the common problem of delayed treatment. Early peer support may result in improved use of therapy, higher self-efficacy, reduced anxiety, and improved coping in the first two years post-diagnosis. This study involves the development and testing of a peer mentor training initiative as one part of an intervention study for people with early IA (EIA). Peer mentors will be trained and assessed to provide one-on-one support (information, emotional, feedback) to individuals who have recently been diagnosed with IA. This is one part of an intervention study. The other part is called Peer to Peer Mentoring: Facilitating Individuals with Early Inflammatory Arthritis to Manage their Arthritis - Peer Mentoring Program.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Early Inflammatory Arthritis Chronic Disease

Keywords

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early inflammatory arthritis chronic disease peer support peer mentor peer counselling

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Interventions

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peer mentor training

A quasi-experimental, before and after study design is proposed to obtain data for planning and implementing a larger-scale study. A training workshop for individuals with IA to become peer mentors will increase peer mentors' confidence and skills to provide one-on-one support to individuals with EIA. Using a combination of lectures, experiential learning and question/answer sessions, peer mentors will learn and practice informational, emotional, appraisal support techniques and skills (communication skills, problem-solving strategies, use of decision tools). Training will be conducted face-to-face, in small-group format by research team and others (2 sessions approx. 5 hours each), in a private meeting room at SHSC. Peer mentors will then provide support to individuals newly diagnosed with IA for 12 weeks (once per week) by telephone and /or face-to-face. Peer mentors will receive ongoing support from the research team (telephone, meetings).

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* To become a peer mentor are:

1. Diagnosis of IA from a physician
2. Disease duration more than 2 years and managing well
3. Currently using medications (DMARDS/biologics) to treat arthritis
4. Have completed an Arthritis Self-Management Program (ASMP) provided by The Arthritis Society and/or similar program and/or have sufficient knowledge and experience with teaching or providing mentoring support to an individual living with a chronic disease
5. Able to participate in two approximately 5-hour training workshops
6. Able to take part in ongoing assessment/evaluation activities (self-report questionnaire, interviews, observation, study activity log)
7. Able to commit to the duration of the research study
8. Willing to provide ongoing one-on-one support to an individual newly diagnosed with IA
9. 18 years of age or older
10. Able to speak, understand, read and write English
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Canadian Arthritis Network

NETWORK

Sponsor Role collaborator

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Dr. Mary Bell

Rheumatologist

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Mary J Bell, MD, FRCPC

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Division of Rheumatology, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre

Locations

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Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Site Status

Countries

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Canada

References

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Sandhu S, Veinot P, Embuldeniya G, Brooks S, Sale J, Huang S, Zhao A, Richards D, Bell MJ. Peer-to-peer mentoring for individuals with early inflammatory arthritis: feasibility pilot. BMJ Open. 2013 Mar 1;3(3):e002267. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002267.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 23457326 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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419-2009

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id