Patient Education Program for Osteoarthritis With Exercise Included (PEPOA-E)

Lund University

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Osteoarthritis

Treatments: Other: Home exercise; Other: Exercise in a group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01119547

PEPOA-E

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate if inclusion of exercise in an education program for patients with osteoarthritis can improve self efficacy, self-perceived health and function.

Full description

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative disease, considered to be one of the major national diseases that cause suffering for affected patients and costs for society.The predominant symptoms are pain, stiffness and impaired quality of life, often together with psychological distress. Treatment often consists of medication. Later in the disease, when the joint is destroyed, joint replacement surgery commonly occurs. Physical exercises aimed to increase muscle strength, endurance, proprioception and stability have proved to influence cartilage as well as function, symptoms and quality of life positively. Physical exercise may also reduce the need for hospital care after knee joint replacement.Research suggests that patient education is feasible and valuable in terms of improvements in quality of life, in function, in well-being and improved coping . Accordingly, guidelines recommend education and exercise as a core treatment for osteoarthritis.

Since 1994, Primary Health Care in Malmö has used a patient education programme directed towards OA.The program does not include exercise. In 2007-09 a study was made to investigate this education program.The study showed improvements in self-perceived health and in a few functional tests but not in self-efficacy.

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of osteoarthritis

Exclusion criteria

• Must be able to speak and understand swedish

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

Home exercise

Experimental group

Description:

The patients is training at home during 6 v. with an individual exercise program.

Treatment:

Other: Home exercise

Exercise in group

Experimental group

Description:

The patients is doing their individual exercise program in a group.

Treatment:

Other: Exercise in a group