Tailored exercise management for people aged 80 years or older with hip/knee osteoarthritis

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Hip and knee osteoarthritis in people aged over 80 years who also have other illnesses; Musculoskeletal Diseases

• Registration Number: ISRCTN75983430
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Oxford

Brief Summary

2023 Protocol article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37005698/ protocol (added 04/04/2023)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2021-12-03
• Last Update Posted: 22 May 2023
• Study Completion: 2023-05-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Ongoing
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 51

Inclusion Criteria

Patient participants:
1. Aged 80 years and above
2. Clinical diagnosis of knee or hip OA: knee or hip joint pain lasting 3 months or longer AND knee or hip joint pain on most days of the past month
3. Diagnosis of at least one comorbidity (determined by GP record review and/or self-report)
4. Registered with a primary care practice
5. Willing and able to give informed consent for participation in the study

Qualitative study:
There are no specific exclusion criteria for the qualitative study. If a patient participant has been recruited to the TEMPO study and meets the inclusion criteria they are eligible for the qualitative study.

TEMPO physiotherapist interview participants:
All physiotherapists who deliver the TEMPO intervention (approximately six physiotherapists) will be eligible to participate in the qualitative interviews. Physiotherapists will be selected by local sites to deliver the TEMPO intervention. To be eligible to deliver the TEMPO intervention physiotherapists must be Band 6 or above. There are no additional eligibility criteria for the qualitative interviews.

Exclusion Criteria

Patient participants:
1. Has a terminal condition with a life expectancy of fewer than 6 months or under palliative care
2. Any substantial health or social concern that, in the opinion of the patient’s GP, would place the patient at increased risk or inability to participate including known inability to provide informed consent
3. Unable to walk 3 m with or without an aid
4. Significant cognitive impairment (Score of 8 or more on the 6-item Cognitive Impairment Test)
5. Unable to follow verbal or written instructions including inability to follow simple safety instructions

TEMPO physiotherapist interview participants:
There are no exclusion criteria for physiotherapists who have delivered the TEMPO intervention taking part in the interview study.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patient recruitment to the study and retention in the study is measured using study recruitment screening logs: (number of patients who are screened, eligible consented and randomised) and logs of data collection forms (attrition rate), at screening, baseline and 14-week follow-up