Multiple Chronic Diseases Clinical Trial
Official title:
A Home-based Rehabilitation Program in Multiple Chronic Diseases: the RITH Trial
In this research, investigators pretent to evaluate the effectiveness of clinical, functional, psychological and social impact of an intervention model based on shared care between the Mobile Rehabilitation and Physical therapy team (MRPTT) and nurse case managers of Primary Care in a sample of patients with multiple chronic diseases (comorbidities) and their caregivers. A non-randomised controlled trial.
The Experimental group consisted of patients with multiple chronic diseases referred to
services in the province of Almería that comply the inclusion criteria and their caregivers.
Outcome measures: sex, age, location, primary caregiver, disabling process, number and type
of categories including by multiple pathologies, personal history, assessment (physical and
functional), Barthel Index, Lawton and Brody index, risk of falls, Scale Pfeiffer, social
support, caregiver burden, hospital readmissions and length, technical aids. Quality of Life
(SF-12) and degree of user satisfaction. Regarding the intervention: date of application,
date of assessment, objectives, treatment / intervention techniques, number of sessions,
staff time spent.
Control Group: Patients with multiple diseases and their caregivers, belonging to health
centers or areas where there is no figure nurse case manager or MRPTT. Registration
information will consist of the same assessments, questionnaires and scales that are
comparable to the experimental and control groups for analysis.
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