Health Related Quality of Life After a Self-promoting Learning Program for People With Rheumatic Diseases

Spenshult Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Rheumatic Diseases

Treatments: Other: Traditional rheumatology care.; Other: Problem based learning

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00803491

FOUS08001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Randomized controlled trial including 200 subjects with rheumatic diseases. Subjects will be randomized to either a self-promoting problem based learning (PBL) program or a control group with traditional care. The hypothesis is that a PBL program will improve health-related quality of life, empowerment and self-care ability.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subjects should have one or several rheumatic diseases diagnosed more than a year.
• Subjects should have musculoskeletal pain, sleep disturbances and fatigue, overwhelming number of days during the last three months.
• Subjects should be registered on the waiting list to the rheumatologic clinic.

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects with difficulties speaking and/or read Swedish.
• Subjects with difficulties travelling to the clinic.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

Problem based learning program

Experimental group

Description:

PBL intervention - a self-promoting PBL program for patients with rheumatic diseases.

Treatment:

Other: Problem based learning

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Traditional rheumatological care.

Treatment:

Other: Traditional rheumatology care.