Dual Task Performance in Rheumatic Diseases

Summary

Chronic pain is pain that exceeds the duration of the injury or trigger stimulus and lasts for at least three months. Recent studies show that chronic pain has devastating effects on cognitive functions by causing emotional stress, anxiety, and depression.The studies show that chronic pain affects certain cognitive areas. These areas are; processing speed, short-term memory, longterm memory, inhibitory control and working memory. In addition, task-oriented studies show that chronic pain affects not single tasks, but rather dual tasks that require the use of complex cognitive function (executive function). 40-60% of rheumatologic patients do not have sufficient relief in their pain. For this reason, dual task performance may be affected in individuals diagnosed with rheumatological disease, secondary to the impairment of cognition. In the literature, there are only limited studies showing dual-task performance effects in individuals diagnosed with fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis. However, chronic pain is the main health problem that prevents mobility restriction and participation in all rheumatic diseases. In addition, there is no study investigating the dual task performance effect in rheumatic diseases in a comprehensive way. Therefore, the aim of the study is to investigate the effect of rheumatic diseases on dual-task performance by comparing it with the control group.

Conditions

• Rheumatic Diseases

Interventions

OTHER

Gait Assessments

10 Meter Walking Test: It is applied by walking at a normal walking speed (like walking in a shopping mall) without any assistance at a marked distance of 10 meters. 1- Evaluation of walking under single task conditions is done with the 10 Meter Walk Test and without any cognitive or motor second task. Evaluation of walking under dual task conditions is applied in two different ways: 2-adding a cognitive task to the walking motor task (motor + cognitive dual task) 3-adding one more motor task to the walking motor task (motor + motor dual task). While performing dual tasks, the time-distance (walking speed, cadence, stride length) characteristics of the gait are recorded using with wearable gait device.

OTHER

Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales 2

It is a multidimensional, disease-specific, self-administered questionnaire designed to measure health status outcomes in patients with arthritis.

OTHER

Visual Analogue Scale

The Visual Analogue Scale is a reliable and easily applicable scale used to measure the pain intensity of patients, accepted in the world literature.

OTHER

Standardized Mini Mental Test

Although the test has limited specificity in terms of differentiating clinical syndromes, it is a short, useful and standardized method that can be used to determine the cognitive level globally.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• EMEL TAŞVURAN HORATA · Afyonkarahisar Health Science University

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

65 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-11-01

Primary Completion

2022-01-01

Completion

2022-01-01

Countries

• Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations