NCT01378689

Improving Bone Health Among Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) Patients on Chronic Glucocorticoids

Improving Bone Health Among RA Patients on Chronic Glucocorticoids

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 4,659 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Alabama at Birmingham · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This quality improvement project is aimed at improving health care by identifying low cost strategies to get Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients to more effectively communicate with their physicians about osteoporosis prevention and treatment (improving doctor-patient communication). The investigators will implement a direct to patient intervention to the population of interest (patients on chronic glucocorticoids) via story-telling, using an Internet based video. The target audience is people on chronic glucocorticoids not already receiving bones-specific osteoporosis medications to determine differences in post-intervention rates of osteoporosis care, and the rates of prescription anti-osteoporosis therapies.

Conditions

• Adverse Effect of Glucocorticoids and Synthetic Analogues
• Osteoporosis
• Rheumatoid Arthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Storytelling online video	patients with a history of chronic glucocorticoids use tell their experiences of side effects resulting from chronic use and provide advice on ways to prevent side effects

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-09-01
• Primary completion: 2012-03-01
• Completion: 2012-12-01
• First posted: 2011-06-22
• Last updated: 2013-01-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States