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Nurse Educational Intervention to Improve Symptoms in Fibromyalgia Patients

NCT05247411 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2022-02-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

To improve self-care and therapy adherence by fibromyalgia (FM) patients through a nursing educational intervention. Historic diagnoses of subjects included terms such as "insane", "imaginary ill", "whiny"; as well, their physical conditions were underestimated by their immediate families. All subjects have problematic employment histories which consistently identified their varied employments as physically too demanding. Over time, increased physician- and societal-awareness, resulted in all subjects being diagnosed with FM; consequently, all subjects reported a strong desire to become well-informed about FM and its treatment. Although medical cannabis (MC) was an available therapy, twenty subjects reported that cannabis had never been proposed despite years of ineffective therapies. In this tudy the effects of a educational intervention by expert nurses on fibromyalgia and MC use were investigated.

Conditions

  • Fibromyalgia

Interventions

OTHER

Educational intervention

During the videoconference, the following items were investigated and evaluated: (i) Knowledge on FM: knowledge on symptoms, onset, treatment, strategies and non-pharmacological interventions that can be implemented to improve the quality of life (physical exercise, nutrition, participation in meditative movement practices, mutual aid groups, membership in a patient association, etc.); (ii) Any MC intake or interest in starting the intake of MC; (iii) Knowledge on MC therapy: specific knowledge on the drug, correct intake, adherence, treatment of side effects related to intake and strategies to reduce them; (iv) Self-care: how the person manages his personal life despite a chronic disease, how she or he monitors, recognizes and treats the symptoms in terms of timing and quality; possible presence of caregivers in their life who help in the management of the disease; employment and how FM affects it and daily life.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Milano Bicocca

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-07-15
Primary Completion
2021-03-01
Completion
2021-03-01

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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