Knee Osteoarthritis, Kinesiophobia and Physical Activity

Aksaray University Training and Research Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Physical Activity; Fear of Pain; Knee Osteoarthritis

Treatments: Behavioral: kinesiophobia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03875040

2018/67

Details and patient eligibility

About

Although the importance of regular physical activity in patients with knee osteoarthritis is known, and fear of movement is considered as one of the causes of physical inactivity and is widely researched in terms of its role in the pathogenesis of pain, there remains to be limited number of studies on kinesiophobia in these patients. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the levels of kinesiophobia and physical activity in patients with knee osteoarthritis and to investigate whether they were associated with demographic characteristics, body mass index, pain intensity, depression, disability, radiological grade, and quality of life.

Full description

A total of 96 female and male patients aged 50 to 75 years with knee osteoarthritis (OA) and knee pain lasting for more than three months (knee pain intensity over 20 mm on Visual Analog Scale-VAS) were included in the study. The severity of pain at night, pain at rest and activity-related pain was evaluated by Visual Analog Scale (VAS), kinesiophobia by Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia (TSK) and Brief Fear of Movement Scale (BFOM), depression by the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), disability by the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC), physical activity level by the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) short form and quality of life by the Short Form 12 Health Survey Questionnaire (SF-12). Age, gender, marital status, educational status, additional disease, drug history, and sociodemographic data such as BMI were obtained from the patients and recorded in the evaluation form.

Enrollment: 96 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

knee osteoarthritis aged 50 to 75 years knee pain lasting for than three months knee pain intensity over 20 mm on Visual Analog Scale-VAS

Exclusion criteria

knee operation, Malignant diseases Systemic infectious diseases inflammatory diseases Fibromyalgia syndrome physical therapy and/or a knee injection within the last three months antidepressants, pregabalin or duloxetine usage

Trial design