NCT00623922

Effect of Patient Education in Rheumatic Diseases

The Effect of Patient Education on Coping and Well Being in Patients With Arthritis.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 141 (actual)
• Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to explore the effect of patient education (PE) in patients with arthritis. PE has become a task that is dictated by law in Norway, and is increasingly used as an element in the treatment of patients with chronic complaints. Our hypothesis is that \- PE delivered as group education, followed by an individual nurse consultation increases the patients wellbeing an ability to cope with the disease.

Detailed description

There has been a rather long tradition of PE for patients with arthritis. A recent systematic review found that PE had small short-term effects on disability, joint counts, patient global assessment, psychological status and depression, but this effect disappeared on the latest time of follow up (3-14 months). A recent large British study also failed to show an effect on pain, physical functioning, or contact with primary care after 12 months, but found a significant effect on anxiety and improved the participants' perceived self efficacy. This indicates that the present forms of interventions fails to show a long term effect. One possible reason for the lack of long term effect might be that these interventions are given to groups only. Patients seem to prefer one-to-one interaction regarding information about the disease and its treatment together with emotional aspects, while education in groups are preferred for physical training and relational topics.

Conditions

• Polyarthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Patient education with individual nurse consultations	3 group meetings followed by 1-2 individual nurse consultations.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-02-01
• Primary completion: 2010-03-01
• Completion: 2010-03-01
• First posted: 2008-02-26
• Last updated: 2015-04-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway