Balancing Lupus Experiences With Stress Strategies (BLESS)

Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2; Phase 1

Conditions: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Treatments: Behavioral: Arthritis Self Management Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT01351662

BLESS

Details and patient eligibility

About

Linking a psychosocial stress intervention with clinical measures of stress in African American lupus patients will assess the utility of this method in reducing perceived stress, and provide the necessary preliminary steps toward future investigations of potential mechanisms.

Full description

To begin to fill this research void, a stress intervention will be piloted and both biological specimens and questionnaire responses collected to assess changes in stress state following the intervention in patients who participated in the intervention compared to those who did not participate in the intervention.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years of age or older
• African American
• Diagnosis of Lupus

Exclusion criteria

• Previous participation in a disease self management program

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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30 participants in 1 patient group

Self management program

Experimental group

Description:

The Arthritis Self-Management Program (ASMP) will be administered to 15 African American lupus patients participating in an ongoing "SLE Clinic Database Project" at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Fifteen other patients will serve as controls and receive usual care.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Arthritis Self Management Program