Effects of highly specialized rehabilitation of patients with multiple sclerosis: a randomized controlled trial of personalized, targeted and multidisciplinary interventions

The Danish Sclerosis Hospitals (Denmark)0 个研究点目标入组 400 人开始时间: 2012年6月6日最近更新: 2021年10月11日

适应症

试验速览

•Study participants will be recruited among all patients who are referred to the 4-week individual rehabilitation program during March 2012 to June 2013. Patients who are referred for a shorter rehabilitation program or theme courses are not eligible for the study.
•Participants must meet the following inclusion criteria:
•1. Aged between 18 and 65 years
•2. Diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS): relapsing remitting, primary or secondary progressive MS
•3. Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) score = 7.5
•4. Can use a PC or have support/relative who can
•5. Ability to read and understand sufficient Danish to understand instructions both orally and in writing, and having completed a consent form

•1. MS disease duration less than 6 months (the period from diagnosis to referral)
•2. Experienced relapse within 3 months before the neurological appraisal
•3. Recipient of sclerosis-specific hospital-based rehabilitation within the last 6 months
•4. Cognition score, Kurtzke's Functional Systems (KFS) > 2 or cognitive limitations which hinder completion of self-reported questionnaires and/or giving informed consent
•5. Moderate to severe depression; severe heart or lung disease
•6. Drug or alcohol abuse
•7. Any other illness that can impede participation in the study
•If participants develop a disease that might impair their participation in the study they will be excluded from the study at that time.

发起方

The Danish Sclerosis Hospitals (Denmark)