Quarantine and Telerehabilitation in Chronic Pain Patients During COVID-19 Pandemic.

University of Thessaly

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Treatments: Other: Exercise Group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04381000

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Details and patient eligibility

About

The quarantine during COVID-19 pandemic has changed daily routine. Staying at home for prolonged periods of time can pose a significant challenge for patients with chronic pain. The purpose of the current study is to investigate how the quarantine effects of psychosocial factors, quality of life, sleep, nutrition and physical activity in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Another purpose is to examine whether a telerehabilitation exercise program is effective during the lockdown period.

Full description

Participants, both male and female, with chronic musculoskeletal pain for at least 3 months will be included in the study. They will complete some questions about anxiety, depression, sleep, nutrition, quality of life, pain behavior and characteristics, illness perceptions, functioning and daily routine. Questionnaires will be completed twice (first and last week of quarantine, 40 days of duration). A group of patients will follow an exercise program during this time. It will be evaluated the link between the question of physical and psychological factors in the experience of pain in quarantine situation and, also, it will examine whether a telerehabilitation exercise program is effective during the lockdown period.

Enrollment: 170 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient with chronic musculoskeletal pain (Chronic pain will be defined as pain lasting for 3 or more months. Also, pain intensity will be at least 3 on a 0-10 numerical pain rating scale on most days of the last 3 months).
• Patient with sufficient understanding of the Greek language

Exclusion criteria

• Patients without being at quarantine
• Systemic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia and/or polymyalgia rheumatic
• Osteoporosis, haemophilia and/or cancer
• Recent surgery or trauma
• Being pregnant or given birth in the preceding year
• Cognitive impairment
• Inability to provide informed consent and/or complete written questionnaires

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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170 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will not participate in any exercise program.

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group will participate in an exercise program for 6 weeks/ 2 sessions per week, for a total of 12 sessions of 30-45 minutes each.

Treatment:

Other: Exercise Group