Health Condition 1: M059- Rheumatoid arthritis with rheumatoid factor, unspecified
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
State Ayurvedic College and Hospital Lucknow
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Diagnosable as aamvata as per ayurvedic criteria and RA as per ACR criteria. 2.Having the symptoms for not less than 3 months. 4.Should not have taken any long acting steroids or disease modifying anti rheumatic drugs in past three months which may have modified the status of ama related features. 5. Should not have taken any NSAIDS or short acting steroids during past 12 hours from the time of actual interrogation.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients having any other joint pathology besides RA(amavata). 2. Patients having ama related systemic pathology eg. obesity, hypothyroidism, diabetes,hepatostetosis, etc. to rule out this every prospective participants will be screened by Random Blood sugar, BMI, TSH, and serum alkaline phosphatase.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Development of an Ama assessment instrument for its use as a disease activity indicator in patients of Amavata ( RA)Timepoint: 6 months | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Assessing the reliability of the instrument 2. Assessing the validity of the instrument with various standard disease activity scores, markers and patient related outcome measures in RA like ESR, CRP, DS 28 score , patient assessment of pain on VAS scale, brief PHQ, HAQ, FACIT-F Score 3. To see the feasibility of Ama score as a patient related outcome measure ( PROM) to evaluate the therapeutic benefits of a given ayurvedic intervention used in Ama related joint pathology. Timepoint: 6 months | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Public ContactSanjeev Rastogi
State Ayurvedic College and Hospital, Lucknow
Outcome results
None listed