Internet-based multidisciplinary interventions will be offered to participants suffering from longterm COVID-19 syndrome. Data will be collected by internet platform at Karolinska Institutet (BASS) before, after rehabilitation and at follow-up after 6 months. Both self-scored questionnaires and physical tests performed at home will be collected to understand the symptomatology, functioning and activity level. Rehabilitation during 8 weeks period will be given in groups as face-to-group, pre-recorded film sessions and by individual approach, the participants will use ExorLive app for physical activity.
This randomised study aimed to understand if multidisciplinary internet-based interventions performed in group and individually are applicable for participants suffering from longterm COVID-19 syndrome. Data will be collected by internet platform at Karolinska Institutet (BASS) before, after rehabilitation and at follow-up after 6 months. Both self-scored questionnaires and physical tests performed at home will be collected to understand the symptomatology, functioning and activity level. Rehabilitation during 8 weeks period will be given in groups as face-to-group, pre-recorded film sessions and by individual approach, the participants will use ExorLive app for physical activity. The participants will be randomised for treatment and waiting lists using a website random.org. Waiting list will be offered rehabilitation interventions after at least 8 weeks period of waiting to exclude a spontaneous improvement or worsening of symptoms. To understand the impact of rehabilitation on work capacity and employment/economic supply, the data from Social Insurance databas will be obtained 2021 year before and upp to 2 years after the intervention. To understand the impact of rehabilitation on sickness-leave, the data from National Insurance Agency will be obtained for 2021 and 2022.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
Body therapies to improve breathing, normalise dysfunction in the autonomic nervous system, relaxation, mindfulness, in some part Acceptance and Commitment Therapy given preferably through body therapies.
St Göran Hospital
Stockholm, Sweden
RECRUITINGChange in health-related quality of life measured by Short Form-36
Important sub scales: vitality, general health, physical functioning, pain. Scale varies between 0 and 100 (highest)
Time frame: Investigators expect changes at 6 months follow-up after rehabilitation
Changes in heart rate variability during physical tests
Heart rate variability measured by puls oximeter during 2 physical tests
Time frame: Investigators expect normalisation at 6 months follow-up
Overall changed scores in validated questionnaires for fatigue, breathing, pain and sleep disorders
Validated self-scored questionnaires such as Multidimentional Fatigue Inventory - for fatigue (values 0-20), Clinical COPD Questionnaire - for breathing (0-50), Chronic Visual Analogue Scale - for pain (0-100), Insomnia Severity Scale - for sleep (0-21) and other questionnaires.
Time frame: Investigators expect changes already at 6 months follow-up
Changed functioning and activity
Functioning and activity will be evaluated by self-scored questionnaires and a new questionnaire Functional compass for COVID-19 based on ICF (International Classification of Functioning and Disability)
Time frame: Investigators expect normalisation at 6 months follow-up
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