Patient Enablement in Osteoarthritis - a Longitudinal Study on Patient Education Programs in Primary Health Care

Osteoarthritis Clinical Trial

Official title:

Patient Enablement in Osteoarthritis - a Longitudinal Study on Patient Education Programs in Primary Health Care

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02974036
• Other study ID #: 782-14
• Status: Completed
• Start date: August 2016
• Est. completion date: December 2019

Study information

• Verified date: February 2022
• Source: Lund University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The overall purpose is to study quality in patient education by means of the patients' self-rated enablement. Specific aims are:

To assess the validity of the patient enablement instrument in relation to self-efficacy and empowerment; To investigate if patient enablement can be effective in identifying which patients would benefit the most from patient education; To study if patient enablement has any relation to self-efficacy, function or self-rated health; To analyze if patient enablement has a causal effect on health care consumption; To evaluate whether patient education is a cost-effective intervention. The project is a longitudinal study, including patients from a patient education programme for osteoarthritis in primary health care. Data consist of patient reported outcome measures and health care consumption. Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility analysis will be used. Inclusion of patients will start August 2016. Analyses of data and manuscript writing will be performed in 2018-2019. Researchers included are from primary health care settings and researchers in the field of OA, patient education and health economy. Our increasingly older and more inactive population will raise huge demands on the health care. The importance of optimizing treatments that are available in primary health care cannot be underestimated. The project will contribute with important knowledge about the patient's own process of getting well.

Description:

The project is a longitudinal study, including patients who are referred to patient education for osteoarthritis in primary health care and is planned to follow the patients one year before baseline measures as well as one year after baseline measures.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 143
• Est. completion date: December 2019
• Est. primary completion date: October 18, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients who are referred to patient education for OA in primary health care

• Speaks and write Swedish

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not having OA

• Not able to speak or write Swedish

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Osteoarthritis
• Patient Education as Topic

Intervention

Other:
• Patient education for osteoarthritis
Group sessions and optional supervised exercise.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Sweden	Primary Health Care	Malmo

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Lund University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Sweden, 

References & Publications (1)

Hansson EE, Jönsson-Lundgren M, Ronnheden AM, Sörensson E, Bjärnung A, Dahlberg LE. Effect of an education programme for patients with osteoarthritis in primary care--a randomized controlled trial. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2010 Oct 25;11:244. doi: 10.1186/1471-2474-11-244. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Swedish Rheumatic Empowerment Scale	Questionnaire	Before intervention, directly after intervention and at 3 and 9 month follow up
Other	EQ5D index	Questionnaire	Before intervention, directly after intervention and at 3 and 9 month follow up
Other	Health care consumption	Linked register data from the Skåne Health Care Register	12 months before baseline and 12 months after baseline
Other	Sick leave	Linked register data from the Swedish Social Insurance Agency	12 months before baseline and 12 months after baseline
Other	EQ5D Health barometer	visual analogue scale	Before intervention, directly after intervention and at 3 and 9 month follow up
Primary	Patient enablement	Questionnaire	directly after intervention
Secondary	Arthritis Self Efficacy Scale	Questionnaire	before intervention, directly after intervention and at 3 and 9 month follow up

External Links

•   BOA registry