Patient Education Program for Osteoarthritis With Exercise Included

NCT ID: NCT01119547

Last Updated: 2018-11-21

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: WITHDRAWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2010-09-30
• Study Completion Date: 2012-09-30

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate if inclusion of exercise in an education program for patients with osteoarthritis can improve self efficacy, self-perceived health and function.

Detailed Description

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative disease, considered to be one of the major national diseases that cause suffering for affected patients and costs for society.The predominant symptoms are pain, stiffness and impaired quality of life, often together with psychological distress. Treatment often consists of medication. Later in the disease, when the joint is destroyed, joint replacement surgery commonly occurs. Physical exercises aimed to increase muscle strength, endurance, proprioception and stability have proved to influence cartilage as well as function, symptoms and quality of life positively. Physical exercise may also reduce the need for hospital care after knee joint replacement.Research suggests that patient education is feasible and valuable in terms of improvements in quality of life, in function, in well-being and improved coping . Accordingly, guidelines recommend education and exercise as a core treatment for osteoarthritis.

Since 1994, Primary Health Care in Malmö has used a patient education programme directed towards OA.The program does not include exercise. In 2007-09 a study was made to investigate this education program.The study showed improvements in self-perceived health and in a few functional tests but not in self-efficacy.

Conditions

Osteoarthritis

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Home exercise

The patients is training at home during 6 v. with an individual exercise program.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Home exercise

Intervention Type: OTHER

The patient exercise their individual program at home during 6 v.

Exercise in group

The patients is doing their individual exercise program in a group.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Exercise in a group

Intervention Type: OTHER

The patient do their individual exercise program in a group.

Interventions

Exercise in a group

The patient do their individual exercise program in a group.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Home exercise

The patient exercise their individual program at home during 6 v.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of osteoarthritis

Exclusion Criteria

• Must be able to speak and understand swedish

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Lund University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Malin Jönsson Lundgren, RPT

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Lund University

Locations

Primary Health Care

Malmo, Skåne County, Sweden

Countries

Sweden

Other Identifiers

PEPOA-E

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id