NCT00722514

Evaluation of a Patient Education Program for Ankylosing Spondylitis

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: —
• Sponsor: Rehazentrum Bad Eilsen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Long term disease management is essential for Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), a chronic progressive systemic inflammatory disease of the axial skeleton. Extensive information about the disease is a necessary first step. An education program for AS was implemented to improve inpatient medical rehabilitation. In a controlled quasi-experimental multicentric study the efficacy of this program was analysed.

Conditions

• Ankylosing Spondylitis
• Spondyloarthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	patient education	* complex individual antiinflammatory rehabilitation program during inpatient rehabilitation (physiotherapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, health-promoting measures and more) and additionally * Patient education 6 x 90 Minutes
BEHAVIORAL	Standard Care	* complex individual antiinflammatory rehabilitation program during inpatient * complex individual medical rehabilitation (physiotherapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, health-promoting measures and more) and additionally * further 6 treatments from available disciplines(e.g. massage, electrotherapy, bath)

Timeline

• Start date: 1998-07-01
• Primary completion: 2001-02-01
• Completion: 2001-07-01
• First posted: 2008-07-25
• Last updated: 2008-08-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany