Physiotherapy in Post COVID-19 Syndrome Patients

University of Granada (UGR)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Post-COVID-19 Syndrome

Treatments: Other: Cognitive behavioral principles-based treatment program; Other: Control intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05477199

DF0098UG

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients who have undergone COVID-19 infection often have long-term sequelae. One of the most prevalent sequelae is pain. The main objective of this research is to investigate the efficacy of a cognitive behavioral principles-based treatment program in fear avoidance beliefs, disability, pain catastrophizing and pain interference.

Enrollment: 54 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients of both sexes.
• Agreed to participate.
• Post COVID-19 patients meeting the WHO definition for this disease.

Exclusion criteria

• Neurological or orthopaedic pathologies that limited voluntary movement.
• Cognitive impairment that prevented them from understanding and answering the questionnaires.
• Patients suffering from a reinfection with SARS-CoV-2.
• Patients who had been hospitalized due to COVID-19 infection.
• Patients who had pre-existing chronic pain according to the current IASP definition.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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54 participants in 2 patient groups

Cognitive behavioral principles-based treatment program group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Cognitive behavioral principles-based treatment program

Control group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Control intervention