Investigation From Biopsychosocial Perspective of Patients With Rheumatic Disease With Covid-19 Who Participated in a Biopsychosocial Exercise Program: A Case Series With 6-Month Follow-up

Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University (KSU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Rheumatic Diseases

Treatments: Other: Bilişsel Egzersiz Terapi Yaklaşımı (BETY, Cognitive Exercise Therapy Approach)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05787340

Kahramanmaras S I U

Details and patient eligibility

About

Objective: This novel study aimed to interrogate from a biopsychosocial perspective the health conditions during the Covid-19 infection and long-Covid periods of 5 patients with rheumatic disease infected with Covid-19 who had acquired the habit of regular exercise before the pandemic.

Method: This case study included five patients suffering from Covid-19 infection among patients with rheumatic disease who had acquired the habit of regular exercise before the Covid-19 pandemic. It was applied a questionnaire to the patients from a biopsychosocial perspective to see the short and long-term effects of Covid-19 during and after quarantine. Moreover, the study used the BETY-Biopsychosocical Questionnaire (BETY-BQ) to evaluate a biopsychosocial point, Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) to measure functional status, and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) to assess anxiety and depression.

Results: In BETY-BQ, HAQ, and HADS, there was an unfavorable increase in overall scores of all patients during Covid-19. After six months, although the results from these three scales improved, some of the patients could not return to their pre-covid state.

Conclusions: The patients participating in the telerehabilitation were able to return to everyday life after Covid more efficiently and overcome post-Covid symptoms easily. This study is important in guiding the exercise approach for patients with rheumatic diseases in pandemics such as Covid-19.

Enrollment: 5 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with the rheumatic disease passed for at least six months after their Covid-19 infection between the ages of 18-65 were included in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Exclusion criteria were the presence of deformity that does not allow exercise, cardiopulmonary disorders, uncontrolled endocrine system diseases, severe psychiatric illnesses, and insufficient skills in using a smartphone.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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5 participants in 1 patient group

BETY exercise group

Experimental group

Description:

intervention group Bilişsel Egzersiz Terapi Yaklaşımı (BETY, Cognitive Exercise Therapy Approach) is a group exercise method that conforms to the biopsychosocial model via telerehabilitation Exercise dosage is 60 minute three days a week.

Treatment:

Other: Bilişsel Egzersiz Terapi Yaklaşımı (BETY, Cognitive Exercise Therapy Approach)