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Evaluation of a Patient Education Program for Ankylosing Spondylitis

NCT00722514 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL

Last updated 2008-08-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Long term disease management is essential for Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), a chronic progressive systemic inflammatory disease of the axial skeleton. Extensive information about the disease is a necessary first step. An education program for AS was implemented to improve inpatient medical rehabilitation. In a controlled quasi-experimental multicentric study the efficacy of this program was analysed.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

patient education

* complex individual antiinflammatory rehabilitation program during inpatient rehabilitation (physiotherapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, health-promoting measures and more) and additionally * Patient education 6 x 90 Minutes

BEHAVIORAL

Standard Care

* complex individual antiinflammatory rehabilitation program during inpatient * complex individual medical rehabilitation (physiotherapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, health-promoting measures and more) and additionally * further 6 treatments from available disciplines(e.g. massage, electrotherapy, bath)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hannover Medical School

    collaborator OTHER

  • Rehazentrum Bad Eilsen

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Inge Ehlebracht-Koenig, MD · Rehazentrum Bad Eilsen

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1998-07-31
Primary Completion
2001-02-28
Completion
2001-07-31

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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