Impact of Physical Activity as a Coadjuvant Treatment in the Healing of Venous Ulcers in Primary Health Care.

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

44 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-05-17

Study Completion Date

2023-12-31

Brief Summary

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Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of a structured educational intervention in physical exercise "Active Legs" as an adjuvant treatment to improve the healing of chronic venous ulcers at 3 months of follow-up, compared with the usual practice in people treated in primary care. Secondary objectives: To evaluate if the intervention active legs as an adjuvant treatment produces better results than usual practice in: degree of healing, recurrence, complete healing at 6 months, pain and quality of life. Describe degree of adherence and satisfaction with the intervention. Design: Randomized, multicenter, pragmatic, open clinical trial of parallel groups with 6 months of follow-up. Setting: Primary Care Health Centers (Madrid). Subjects: Patients with venous ulcers, with treatment in the nursing consultation of the participating centers. Sample: 224 participants (112 in each group). Intervention: Both groups will receive the usual treatment of cleaning, debridement based on humid environment cure and multilayer compression therapy according to the recommendations of Community of Madrid. The intervention group will also receive the structured educational intervention of lower limbs physical exercise and daily walking patterns. Variables: Main: complete healing at 3 months follow-up. Secondary: Degree of healing; ulcer area; quality of life; pain, related to the healing process, prognosis and recurrences; Sociodemographic and related adherence and satisfaction. Data analysis: Main effectiveness: comparison of the incidence of ulcers with complete healing at 3 months of follow-up in both groups, time to complete healing (Kaplan-Meier and Log-rank test). Adjustment of prognostic factors (Cox regression).

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Varicose Ulcer

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Randomised, multicentre clinical trial, parallel, pragmatic, with 6 months of follow-up.

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Intervention can't be masked. We will objectify primary outcome by photography images and adherence to exercise through the use of pedometers.

Statistician conducting the analysis will not know to which study arm a given patient has been assigned.

Study Groups

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Control

Usual Care: that consists of healing the wound (assessment, cleaning, disinfection, debridement and topical treatment) and compression therapy multilayer usual practice, according to the recommendations for the treatment of cutaneous ulcers of the Region of Madrid.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Usual care

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Evaluation, cleaning, debridement, topical treatment (moist healing) and compressive therapy according to the recommendations for the treatment of chronic cutaneous ulcers of the Community of Madrid.

Intervention

ACTIVE LEGS: The usual care plus experimental intervention. It is a structured educational intervention, directed by nurses and carried out in the health center consultations. The intervention "Active Legs" has been designed based on the available evidence. It incorporates a program of lower limb exercise at home and daily walking patterns.

Home program of lower limb exercises. The nurse will instruct the patients in the performance of 4 exercises of lower limbs of progressive difficulty that must be performed at home 5 days a week, twice a day Daily walking program. In addition, patients must ambulate progressively until reaching the marked goal (150 min / week (30 minutes for 5 days a week)) .

At the start of the study, the "Active Legs" diary will be provided, showing the patterns of the exercise and walking program graphically and a pedometer.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Project active legs

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Home program of exercises of lower extremities includes the performance of 4 exercises of lower extremities of progressive difficulty that must be carried out at home 5 days a week, twice a day and walking progressively until reaching the marked goal (150 min / week (30 minutes for 5 days a week)).

Usual care

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Evaluation, cleaning, debridement, topical treatment (moist healing) and compressive therapy according to the recommendations for the treatment of chronic cutaneous ulcers of the Community of Madrid.

Interventions

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Project active legs

Home program of exercises of lower extremities includes the performance of 4 exercises of lower extremities of progressive difficulty that must be carried out at home 5 days a week, twice a day and walking progressively until reaching the marked goal (150 min / week (30 minutes for 5 days a week)).

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Usual care

Evaluation, cleaning, debridement, topical treatment (moist healing) and compressive therapy according to the recommendations for the treatment of chronic cutaneous ulcers of the Community of Madrid.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Individuals with a diagnosis of venous ulcers registered in electronic clinical history (history of chronic venous insufficiency and/or venous ulcer) and presence of an ankle brachial index (ABI) greater than 0.8 and less than 1.3.
* Presence at least a venous ulcer of 1cm or more in diameter. If the participant has more than one lesion, the nurse will select the lesion with the highest Resvech 2.0 score for the study.
* Independent ambulation or with the help of devices.
* Individuals who able to follow the demands of the trial and who provide their written informed consent to participate.

Exclusion Criteria

* Patients with mixed ulcers.
* Acute phase deep vein thrombosis.
* Patients on treatment with antineoplastic agents.
* Decompensated heart failure.
* Rheumatoid arthritis.
* Acute phase dermatitis, at the time of the study.
* Patients immobilized at home, institutionalized or displaced residing outside the area where the research is conducted for more than 6 months a year or during the performance of the intervention.
* Absolute contraindication to perform physical exercise.
* Patients who are simultaneously participating in another clinical trial.

Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No