Explaining osteoarthritis: development of a patient explanation package (PEP-OA)

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• Conditions: Osteoarthritis; Musculoskeletal Diseases

• Registration Number: ISRCTN16795883
• Lead Sponsor: Keele University

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2019-10-02
• Last Update Posted: 12 April 2021
• Study Completion: 2022-03-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Ongoing
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 339

Inclusion Criteria

Work package 1 & 2:
1. Patients aged =47
2. Have consulted in their general practice in the last two years
3. Have a recorded consultation coded relating to osteoarthritis

Work package 3:
1. Patients who responded with consent-to-future contact in earlier stages of the research will be eligible for inclusion. In this way we are ensuring that the patients have recently consulted with a problem pertaining to osteoarthritis
2. Lay people aged 45 years or older who do not have a diagnosis of osteoarthritis (and thus are potential future patients)
3. Healthcare professionals who, in their usual clinical roles, give diagnoses to patients with osteoarthritis. These are likely to include, but may not exclusively be, General Practitioners, Primary Care Nurses and Physiotherapists

Exclusion Criteria

Work package 1 & 2: patients with
1. Severe mental illness
2. Rheumatoid arthritis
3. Psoriatic arthritis
4. Ankylosing spondylitis
5. Gout
6. Polymyalgia rheumatica
7. Moderate to severe learning disabilities
8. Dementia
9. Record that they lack capacity
10. Record that they are on the palliative care register
11. Recorded dissent to share their data
12. Inability to speak English

Work package 3:
1. Patients will only be excluded if they indicate they no longer wish to participate or if they have developed any of the exclusion conditions since the original search
2. Lay people will excluded if they report that they have previously been diagnosed with osteoarthritis
3. Healthcare professionals will be excluded if, in their clinical role, they have not provided a diagnosis of osteoarthritis to a patient in the last 6 months

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<br> WP1 - Adapted nominal group technique to collect 11 prioritised explanation statements to be taken forward for testing in the conjoint analysis.<br><br> WP2 - Partial-profile conjoint analysis questionnaire survey to ascertain the extent to which new, prioritised explanation statements are preferred over currently used/available statements for explaining OA<br><br> WP3 - Think-aloud interviews to identify the necessary refinements required to develop the final core OA explanation and important additional statements<br><br> WP4 - The early utility, acceptability and impact of PEP-OA measured using an on-line questionnaire and usage metrics gathered from the multimedia knowledge mobilisation package app<br>