NCT04381000

Quarantine and Telerehabilitation in Chronic Pain Patients During COVID-19 Pandemic.

The Impact of Quarantine and the Effectiveness of Telerehabilitation in Patients With Chronic Pain During COVID-19 Pandemic.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 170 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Thessaly · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The quarantine during COVID-19 pandemic has changed daily routine. Staying at home for prolonged periods of time can pose a significant challenge for patients with chronic pain. The purpose of the current study is to investigate how the quarantine effects of psychosocial factors, quality of life, sleep, nutrition and physical activity in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Another purpose is to examine whether a telerehabilitation exercise program is effective during the lockdown period.

Detailed description

Participants, both male and female, with chronic musculoskeletal pain for at least 3 months will be included in the study. They will complete some questions about anxiety, depression, sleep, nutrition, quality of life, pain behavior and characteristics, illness perceptions, functioning and daily routine. Questionnaires will be completed twice (first and last week of quarantine, 40 days of duration). A group of patients will follow an exercise program during this time. It will be evaluated the link between the question of physical and psychological factors in the experience of pain in quarantine situation and, also, it will examine whether a telerehabilitation exercise program is effective during the lockdown period.

Conditions

• Chronic Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Exercise Group	The group follows warm up exercise (maximum 10 minutes). This consisted of combined, breathing techniques, low-impact aerobic exercises, free range of motion exercises of upper and lower limbs and spine, and coordination-based exercises of hands and feet. Breathing techniques take regular activities such as sitting, walking, and lying down. At the end of this phase, active stretching exercises of major muscles of arm, leg and trunk were performed.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-04-01
• Primary completion: 2020-05-29
• Completion: 2020-06-10
• First posted: 2020-05-08
• Last updated: 2020-07-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Greece