NCT07272148

The Pilot of the Turku Outpatient Clinic for Functional and Fatigue Disorders

The Pilot of the Turku Outpatient Clinic for Functional and Fatigue Disorders in the Welbeing Services County of Southwest Finland

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 125 (actual)
• Sponsor: Turku University Hospital · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 66 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study examined 125 working-age patients from the Turku Outpatient Clinic for Functional and Fatigue Disorders. "Patients participate in the clinic's biopsychosocial, multidisciplinary, and individually tailored rehabilitation. The aim of the rehabilitation is to improve patients' functional capacity and provide them with tools to manage and cope with their symptoms. In addition, the goal is to break the cycle of unnecessary examinations that cause harm to the patient. Socioeconomic data, as well as information related to functional capacity, symptoms, and quality of life, are collected from patients at the start of rehabilitation and again at six and twelve months after the beginning of rehabilitation. In addition, data on patients' use of social and health care services are requested from registers for the year preceding the start of rehabilitation and for the year following rehabilitation.

Conditions

• Persistent Physical Symptoms (PPS)
• Functional Disorder
• Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Biopsychosocial, multidisciplinary, and individually tailored rehabilitation for patients with persisten symptoms	The clinic's staff included a pilot project coordinator, a physician, an occupational therapist, a physiotherapist, a psychologist, a rehabilitation counselor, and a ward secretary. At the physician's initial visit, stress system sensitization, burden factors, and need for symptomatic medication were assessed. In a joint rehabilitation team meeting, the patient met a psychologist, occupational therapist, physiotherapist, and rehabilitation counselor, who conducted a multidisciplinary evaluation and created an individualized rehabilitation plan. Patients then attended a course for persistent bodily symptoms, with some joining a psychophysical breathing group. Individual rehabilitation or counseling was provided according to each patient's needs.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-08-01
• Primary completion: 2026-05-01
• Completion: 2027-05-01
• First posted: 2025-12-09
• Last updated: 2025-12-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland