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Influence of Perception of Patients Suffering of Knee Osteoarthritis Regarding Effectiveness of Intra-articular Injection

NCT02835521 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 100

Last updated 2016-07-18

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Summary

Introduction; reception must be understood as the offered attention within the relationship between a healthcare worker and the patient, including attitudes of inclusion, hearing, valorization of complains and identification of needs, being these individual collective. As a part of this process, communication is a primary and indispensable toll through which the healthcare team and the patient interchange information.

Objective: to evaluate the influence of perception of patients suffering of knee osteoarthritis over fear, catastrophizing of pain and effectiveness, related to intra-articular injection od corticosteroids.

Material and method: it will be performed a prospective, controlled and randomized study eith a blind evaluator on patients with symptomatic knee osteoarthritis submitted to joint injection. A hundred patients suffering of symptomatic knee osteoarthritis coming from the outpatient area of Rheumatology Division of Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP) will be evaluated, 50 belonging to the intervention group (reception) and 50 to a control group.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Reception

DRUG

Joint injection with triamcinolone hexacetonide

joint injection with corticosteroids

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Federal University of São Paulo

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Max Age
85 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-08-31
Primary Completion
2017-02-28
Completion
2017-07-31

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