Home Monitoring of Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis - an eHealth Development Study

Henrik Gudbergsen240 enrolled

Overview

A two-step multi-centre study with 240 rheumatoid arthritis patients.

A two-step multi-centre study containing: A test-retest study including 180 patients filling in questionnaires and performing joint assessments to assess reliability of patient generated data AND An agreement study focusing on questionnaires and joint assessments performed by 60 patients, a medical student, a physician and by an ultrasound-examinator assessing agreement between the four assessors

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

240

Conditions

Rheumatoid Arthritis

Interventions

instructionOTHER

online instruction tutorials at followup visits

standard baseline instructionOTHER

self-guidance at followup visits

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 85 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Diagnosed with RA ≥ 12 months * DAS28-CRP \< 5,1 Exclusion Criteria: * Dementia or other linguistic/cognitive/physical deficiency that prevents participation * Vision impairment that prevents the use of the devices and computer

Locations (1)

Department of Rheumatology

Frederiksberg, Capital Region, Denmark

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Intrarater reliability of DAS28 done by patients

Time frame: Baseline

Secondary Outcomes

Interrater agreement of DAS28CRP

Time frame: Baseline

Intrarater reliability of joints counts performed by patients

Time frame: Baseline

Intrarater reliability of joint scores performed by patients

Time frame: 8 weeks

Inter- and intrarater realiabilty of DAS38

Time frame: 8 weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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