Feasibility of Care for Osteoarthritis through Pharmacy Education and Referral

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Knee osteoarthritis; Musculoskeletal - Osteoarthritis; Public Health - Health promotion/education

• Registration Number: ACTRN12620000068965
• Lead Sponsor: Dr Ben Darlow

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2020-01-28
• Study Completion: 2020-09-28
• Last Update Posted: 28 June 2021

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 24

Inclusion Criteria

Pharmacists:
•New Zealand registered pharmacist
•Working in Canterbury
•Working in a community pharmacy that has agreed to participate in the study

Consumers:
•They are over 18 years of age
•They have knee pain that has been:
odiagnosed by a health professional as OA, or
odiagnosed within the pharmacy as OA as part of the recruitment visit, using
the NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) diagnostic criteria
•They have attended a pharmacy participating in the study and received an OA explanation and COPER booklet from a pharmacist who had attended the training session

Exclusion Criteria

Pharmacist participants will be excluded if they:
• do not participate in study training sessions.

Consumer participants will not be eligible for the study if they:
•have had a joint replacement in either knee at any time.
•have had knee surgery (other than joint replacement) in the last 12 months.
•are unable to read and write in English.
•have taken part in Phase I of this feasibility study ('The effect of health information distributed to people with knee osteoarthritis through community pharmacies on health perceptions, attitudes, and knowledge: a feasibility study' (ACTRN12620000020987))

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified