A Shared Medical Appointment Intervention for Quality of Life Improvement in POTS

University of Arizona

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome

Treatments: Behavioral: Shared medical appointment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05454137

STUDY00001552

Details and patient eligibility

About

Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) is a clinical syndrome encompassing a myriad of debilitating symptoms that does not have any FDA approved drug therapies. We propose a shared medical appointment intervention where participants will learn lifestyle management therapies and integrative practices that may improve quality of life.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 79 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients with a physician diagnosis of POTS

Exclusion criteria

• patients with uncontrolled psychiatric disease
• patients with uncontrolled medical illness including recent myocardial infarction, stroke, and active malignancy
• non-English speakers as the group intervention will be delivered in English
• pregnant women

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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10 participants in 2 patient groups

participate in shared medical appointment

Experimental group

Description:

The POTS shared medical appointment will occur once monthly for four months. Each visit will last 1.5 hours. The group will meet in our clinic group space and lifestyle management therapies will be taught by a physician and another provider ie occupational therapist, dietician etc

Treatment:

Behavioral: Shared medical appointment

Do not participate in shared medical appointment

No Intervention group

Description:

participants will only have one-on-one traditional visit with the physician