Effectiveness of a multidisciplinary team care programme in comparison with usual care for patients with scleroderma

Completed

• Conditions: Systemic sclerosis, scleroderma, rehabilitation; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Systemic sclerosis

• Registration Number: ISRCTN64237175
• Lead Sponsor: eiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) (Netherlands)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-04-15
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2015

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 50

Inclusion Criteria

1. Scleroderma according to the Leroy's criteria
2. Age 18-70 years
3. Able to cycle on a bicycle ergometer
4. Able to engage in a day patient programme 2 times a week over 12 continuous weeks and to reach the hospital at 10.00 a.m.
5. Stable antirheumatic medication over the past 2 months
3. Fluent in Dutch

Exclusion Criteria

1. Current engagement in a multidisciplinary or group exercise therapy program
2. Planned hospitalisation or surgery in the next 6 months
3. Psychiatric disorders including alcohol and drugs abuse
4. Concomitant diseases (other than heart or lung disease) interfering with the performance of daily activities
5. Pregnancy or planned pregnancy in the next 6 months
6. The following concomitant heart or lung disease:
6.1. Instable angina pectoris
6.2. Recent myocardial infarction
6.3. Heart rhythm disturbances with haemodynamic consequences
6.4. Symptomatic stenosis of the aortic valve
6.5. Symptomatic heart failure
6.6. Recent lung embolism or lung infarction
6.7. Acute myocarditis or pericarditis
6.8. Aortic dissection

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified