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Happy Hands - an E-self-management Intervention for People With Hand Osteoarthritis

NCT05568875 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 386

Last updated 2025-04-13

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Summary

The main aim of this project is to assess the effect, cost-effectiveness and user experiences with using an e-self-management intervention in addition to treatment as usual compared to treatment as usual alone in patients with hand osteoarthritis. The study is an RCT comprising approx 400 participants with hand osteoarthritis recruited from primary and secondary healthcare in all four health regions in Norway.

Conditions

  • Hand Osteoarthritis

Interventions

OTHER

e-self-management intervention (Happy Hands app)

The 12-week intervention consists of 30 short informational videos addressing the themes prioritized by the patient research partners. These themes are further operationalized into the following categories: "Information on hand OA", "Hand exercises", "Use of assistive devices and orthoses", "Medication and surgical alternatives", and "Self-management of the disease". Additionally, the intervention includes a hand exercise program consisting of 8 videos providing instructions on warm up, exercises to improve mobility, strength and coordination, and a stretching exercise. The intervention group will additionally receive treatment as usual.

OTHER

Treatment as usual

Treatment as usual may vary from no treatment at all to referral to a patient education group program, or occupational therapy.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The Dam Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • Diakonhjemmet Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Anne Therese Tveter, PhD · Diakonhjemmet Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-11-08
Primary Completion
2023-09-01
Completion
2024-02-29

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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