The Southern Adelaide waiting list project: a regional Partners in Health approach with a call-centre support system

Completed

• Conditions: Osteoarthritis; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Polyarthrosis

• Registration Number: ISRCTN45043887
• Lead Sponsor: Flinders University (Australia)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2008-08-21
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2015

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 250

Inclusion Criteria

1. Confirmed allocation as non-urgent status to a southern region
2. Joint replacement waiting list
3. Adult patients, either sex

Exclusion Criteria

1. Mini-mental state examination score less than 24
2. Unable to read and speak English
3. Unable to complete the six-month follow-up
4. Significant frailty or illness that will make protocol completion unlikely
5. Living outside the southern region of Adelaide
6. Urgent or semi-urgent category status

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Health education impact was measured using the Health Education Impact Questionnaire (HEI-Q) at baseline and six months.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Quality of life, measured using the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL), at baseline and six months<br>2. Depression, measured using the Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) at baseline and six months<br>3. Medications beliefs were measured using the Beliefs about Medicines which is a patient-centred measure that captures individual?s general beliefs about use of prescription and non-prescription medicines, at baseline and six months<br>4. The Western Ontario and McMaster Universities (WOMAC) Arthritis Index was used to capture the pain, stiffness and function associated with osteoarthritis at baseline and six months