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Effects of 12-week Digital Treatment in Patients With Hand OA on Pain and Function

NCT05499559 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 846

Last updated 2025-08-27

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of a 12 week digital treatment program for patients with hand osteoarthritis. The treatment consisted of exercises and educational sessions with respect to the disease, its natural course and recommended treatment strategies.

Design: An observational longitudinal cohort study.

The investigators will include participants who participated in the digital treatment of Joint Academy® for 3 months.

Outcomes: Investigators will analyze pain with Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) 0-10 (best to worst), function with the Functional Index for Hand OsteoArthritis (FIHOA) and health related quality of life with EuroQol-5 Dimensions-5 Levels (EQ-5D-5L) at baseline and at 3 months. Main outcome will be change in pain. The investigators will also analyze minimally clinical important changes (improved or not) and mean changes in EQ-5D-5L index score, pain and function.

Conditions

  • Hand Osteoarthritis
  • Wrist Osteoarthritis
  • Thumb Osteoarthritis
  • Finger Osteoarthritis

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Joint Academy digital treatment

The Joint Academy® (www.jointacademy.com) program for people with hand OA consists of video instructed and progressively adaptable daily exercises, patient education through text lessons, possibility for a social chat group with other patients and a continuous asynchronous chat function with a personal reg. physiotherapist who supervises the patient during the full participation period. The program also contains three telephone consultations with a physiotherapist that were compulsory, one at the start, one after six weeks and one after three months.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Lund University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Joint Academy

    lead INDUSTRY

Principal Investigators

  • Leif Dahlberg, Professor · Arthro Therapeutics /Joint Academy

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-07-07
Primary Completion
2022-07-31
Completion
2023-06-26

Countries

  • Sweden

Study Locations

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