Writing About Disease: Effect on Rehabilitation?
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 180
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Quality of life
研究概览
简要总结
Therapeutic writing about one's emotions has been described previously (J Pennebaker: Emotions, disclosure and health. Am Psychol. Assoc 1995). The present project will compare the effects (if any) of writing about the emotional versus the physical consequences of lung disease on anxiety, perceived quality of life, and perceived health status.
详细描述
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients (age 35-70) and asthma patients (age 20-60) referred to a 4 weeks inpatient rehabilitation program - who agree to participate in the project - are randomly assigned to one of three conditions:
- Writing about emotional consequences of their disease before the program starts
- Writing about physical consequences of their disease before the program starts
- Not writing
All patients are measured (completing questionnaires at home) on: perceived quality of life, perceived health status and trait anxiety - 2 weeks before the program, 2 weeks after the program and 6 months after the program. FEV1 and 6 min walking distance are measured at the beginning and by the end of the program.
In addition to questionnaires, all patients are asked to:
- Write in their own words ( 2 weeks after) to evaluate their stay at the rehabilitation clinic; and
- Write in their own words (6 months after) about how the disease affects their life at that point.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 20 Years 至 70 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Clinical diagnosis of COPD (age between 35 and 70)
- •Clinical diagnosis of asthma (age between 20 and 60)
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Quality of life
时间窗: prospective
Perceived health status
时间窗: prospective
Trait anxiety
时间窗: prospective
次要结局
- Forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1)(prospective)
- 6-minute walking distance(prospective)