NCT06791980

Integrated Care Approach for Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients

Association Between Pro-inflammatory Cytokines and Depressive Symptoms in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis: Evaluating the Impact of an Integrated Care Approach

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 67 (actual)
• Sponsor: Dalin Tzu Chi General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to learn about the long-term effects of integrated care approach in persons over the age of 20 who take part in integrated care approach to treat their rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The main question is to explore whether adding the integrated care approach into routine care can lower pro-inflammatory cytokines and depressive symptom in RA persons over age 20 when taken long-term to treat RA?

Conditions

• Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	ETLA	To assess the long-term effects of integrated case management model involving traditional Chinese medicine (CM-TCM) model. The persons participating will be invited to enroll in this stage, and they will be assigned to receive either the usual care or a usual care plus integrated 3-month CM-TCM

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-10-01
• Primary completion: 2025-10-31
• Completion: 2025-12-31
• First posted: 2025-01-24
• Last updated: 2026-04-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan