Telerehabilitation in Women With Rheumatic Disease

Hasan Kalyoncu University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Rheumatic Disease

Treatments: Other: Control group; Other: Biopsychosocial Exercise Therapy approach (BETY)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05321901

2020/106

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to investigate the effectiveness of the Biopsychosocial Exercise Therapy Approach (BETY), which is a biopsychosocial model, on daily living activities, anxiety, depression, and biopsychosocial conditions through telerehabilitation in rheumatic patients who could not go to the clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Full description

35 female participants with rheumatic disease were included in the study. Among the individuals who participated in face-to-face BETY sessions before, 23 individuals who agreed to exercise with telerehabilitation were divided into 2 groups, the exercise group, and 12 individuals in the control group.

Group 1: Telerehabilitation group: Individuals in the telerehabilitation group attended sessions that lasted for one and a half hours, 3 days a week for 8 weeks, in the company of a physiotherapist over the Whatsapp group. The investigators, who provided supervision during the sessions, also participated in the exercises simultaneously. The investigators managed the individuals according to their exercise number and order, by reminding them of the exercises with explanatory messages and positive energy via Whatsapp group. The participation of the patients in the exercises was followed up with the answers they gave in the Whatsapp group. Patients who did not respond were called by phone and checked to see if they provided continuity. Both the exercise group and the control group continued their drug treatments during this period.

Group 2: Control group: Individuals in the control group continued their routine drugs.

Enrollment: 35 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 35 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants diagnosed with rheumatic disease,
• Participants knew the exercises before attending BETY sessions,
• Participants who could participate in telerehabilitation by following WhatsApp communication were included in the exercise group.

Exclusion criteria

• Participants with neurological and psychological disorders,
• severe respiratory failure, fractures, infections, cancer, and musculoskeletal pain due to surgery in the last 6 months,
• Vision loss,
• Pregnancy
• Participants who did not agree to volunteer were not included in our study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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35 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental Group: Telerehabilitation assisted exercise program

Active Comparator group

Description:

The telerehabilitation-assisted exercise program included a Biopsychosocial Exercise Therapy approach (BETY). The approaches that make up the BETY innovation are grouped under 4 headings: Patient education on chronic pain, functional body stabilization exercises (mind-body information management), dance therapy-authentic movement (emotion-state information management), and sexual information management. Tele-rehabilitation group participated in the sessions that lasted for one and a half hours, 3 days a week for 8 weeks, over the Whatsapp group. The investigators, who provided supervision during the sessions, also participated in the exercises simultaneously.

Treatment:

Other: Biopsychosocial Exercise Therapy approach (BETY)

Control Group

Other group

Description:

The control group participants were those who did not want to receive exercise treatment with telerehabilitation and took their routine medications during the 8 weeks period.

Treatment:

Other: Control group