Knee Osteoarthritis Disabling Pain Program for the Brazilian Unified Health System

Marta Imamura

Status: Completed

Conditions: Osteoarthritis, Knee

Treatments: Other: Clinical treatment and Knee educational program; Other: Knee educational program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05286775

08756819.8.0000.0068

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a Randomized Clinical Trial to compare two interventions for reducing knee pain and improving knee function of patients with knee osteoarthritis.

Sixty participants will be randomly allocated to one of the intervention groups, either a knee educational program or a combination of knee educational program and medical interventions.

Participants will be assessed primarily on function and pain, as well as other secondary outcomes at baseline, at the end of the interventions, and three months after the end of the interventions.

Enrollment: 71 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis;
• Moderate to severe knee pain (VAS >= 4);
• Knee pain for at least 3 months prior to inclusion;
• Willing to sign the Informed Consent Form.

Exclusion criteria

• Untreated severe psychological or psychiatric diseases without treatment;
• Presence of fibromyalgia;
• Presence of systemic inflammatory rheumatic diseases;
• Presence of neoplasia;
• Presence of relevant pain in other joints, according to medical evaluation;
• Presence of intolerance or allergy to Lidocaine or local anaesthetics;
• Concomitant use of anticoagulant drug.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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71 participants in 2 patient groups

Clinical treatment and Knee educational program

Experimental group

Description:

Medical knee treatment combined with knee educational educational program

Treatment:

Other: Clinical treatment and Knee educational program

Knee educational program

Active Comparator group

Description:

Knee educational program

Treatment:

Other: Knee educational program

Other: Clinical treatment and Knee educational program