An online self-management intervention for patients with hand osteoarthritis - a randomised controlled trial

Completed

Conditions: hand OA
hand osteoarthritis
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Registration Number: NL-OMON50628

Lead Sponsor: niversiteit Leiden

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 70

Inclusion Criteria

- Diagnosed with hand OA, following American College of Rheumatology (ARC) criteria
- Referred to the hand OA care path
- Complaints from hand OA including pain, with a minimal duration of 3 months
- Minimum age of 18 years
- Fluent in Dutch language
- Able to give informed consent
- Own a computer with internet access

Exclusion Criteria

- Difficulties in (written) communication (e.g. due to analfabetism)
- Severe psychiatric comorbidities that interfere with the study protocol.
- On-going psychological treatment elsewhere
- Secondary OA due to diseases such as 1) inflammatory rheumatic diseases, as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, etc, 2) bone diseases, as M. Paget, osteochondritis, 3) metabolic diseases associated with joint disease, as hemochromatosis, acromegaly, 4) severe crystal arthropathies, as topheus polyarticular gout.

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>The primary outcome will be pain coping, measured with a VAS score.</p><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<p>As secondary outcomes, a number of other psychological and physical outcome<br /><br>measures will be assessed (e.g., HR-Qol, well-being, pain impact on daily life,<br /><br>pain cognitions). Additionally, the cost-effectiveness will be assessed. </p><br>