Clinical trial NCT05321901: Telerehabilitation in Women With Rheumatic Disease
Official title: Effects of a Telerehabilitation Program Based on Biopsychosocial Approach in Women With Rheumatic Disease
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Rheumatic Disease
Keywords: Rheumatic diseases
Telerehabilitation
Chronic pain
COVID-19
Biopsychosocial Approach
Lead sponsor: Hasan Kalyoncu University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-04-11
Enrollment: 35
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 35
Maximum age (years): 65
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: 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.

Detailed 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.

Eligibility criteria: 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.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Change from Baseline in Health Assessment Questionnaire at 8 weeks
timeFrame: Baseline, 8 weeks
measure: Change from Baseline in Health Anxiety and Depression Scale at 8 weeks
timeFrame: Baseline, 8 weeks
measure: Change from Baseline in Biopsychosocial Exercise Therapy Questionnaire (BETY-BQ) at 8 weeks
timeFrame: Baseline, 8 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Gaziantep
country: Turkey
facility: Hasan Kalyoncu University
Study officials:
affiliation: Hasan Kalyoncu University
name: Aysenur Tuncer, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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