NCT04983784

The Effectiveness of Walking in Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Buddhist Dalin Tzuchi General Hospital

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 64 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Expected Results: Finding from this evidence-based study ought to clarify the effectiveness of walking intervention for patients with SLE, and provide reference for future nursing strategies to improve disease adaptability.

Detailed description

Background and purpose: Walking exercise may be grateful in strengthening the cardiopulmonary function, regulating the joint flexbility, relieving the pain and the disturbance of sleep, all of which can further improve the quality of life among the patients with chronic diseases. Nevertheless, the information regarding the effect of walking exercise amongst systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) subjects is still obscure. This study aimed to the influence of quality of life and sleep after the implementation of walking exercise among such groups. uses the Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the Pittsburgh Sleep QualityIndex、Systemic Lupus Erythematosus-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire and Systemic Lupus Disease Activity of Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Score and Taiwanese Depression Questionnaire to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention of walking exercise on Systemic lupus erythematosus. Methods: Through the quasi-experimental study design, the investigators intend to recruit the SLE patients from a hospital in Taiwan between 2021-2022. The main intervention is composed of home walking, which contained walking guidance and telephone consultation. After that, the investigators apply the structured questionnaires and existing data to collect performance indicators, covering the Chinese version of Pittsburgh Sleep QualityIndex, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire, Systemic Lupus Disease Activity of Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Score, and Taiwanese Depression Questionnaire. The effects of walking exercise is determined by The generalized estimation equations(GEE) .

Conditions

• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	walking	walking for 12 weeks at home
OTHER	Routine care	Routine care

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-11-01
• Primary completion: 2021-07-30
• Completion: 2021-07-30
• First posted: 2021-07-30
• Last updated: 2021-08-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan