Patient Education in Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: Patient education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00618150

Sak 33-96 (REK)

SLKNR 96/00515

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (heart-burn, acid regurgitation)may benefit from an educational program explaining the medical aspects of the disease, self-management strategies and how to deal with health services. We hypothesized that patients having participated in an educational program would experience an improved quality of life when compared to patients who did not take part (controls).

Enrollment: 211 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• heartburn and acid regurgitation the dominant symptom
• needing relief at least 5 days/ week when symptoms were at their worst
• disease history at least 3 months
• ability to give informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• current or previous esophagitis stage 2(Savary-Miller) or greater or peptic ulc
• continuous need of proton pump inhibitors or NSAIDs
• wish for surgical treatment
• earlier surgical treatment in the GI-tract
• pregnancy
• alcohol or drug abuse

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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211 participants in 1 patient group

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Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Patient education