M79.7
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Intervention condition is an advanced self-management patient education program for patients with fibromyalgia syndrome. This consists of 6 sessions of 90 minutes each and one optional prepar
content: illness and treatment information, coping with pain and stress, exercise therapy). In the second cooperating clinic, patients participate in a coping with pain group with 4 sessions (90 minut
content: information about pain, coping with pain, transfer into daily life) and receive a flyer about the fibromyalgia syndrome. In the third cooperating clinic, patients are informed by physician-de
Sponsors
Abteilung für Medizinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Medizinische Soziologie und Rehabilitationswissenschaften
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: patients in inpatient rehabilitation clinics with main diagnosis fibromyalgia syndrome (ICD-10: M79.7)
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: insufficient German language ability, severe psychiatric comorbidity which leads to inability to participate in a group, cognitive impairment, not corrected severe visual or hearing impairment
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1) Disease- and treatment specific knowledge at discharge (also measured after 12 months): self-developed instrument 2) Self-management competence after 6 month (also measured at discharge, after 12 months): Health Education Impact Questionnaire (heiQ; Osborne et al., 2007, Schuler et al., 2013), subscales: skill and technique acquisition, self-monitoring and insight | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1) Attitudes and Coping competences (discharge, after 6 months, after 12 months): 1.1) pain-related controllability: German version of the Rheumatology Attitudes Index (Leibing, Hoyer, Romatzki & Ehlers, 1999); 1.2) Acceptance of the disease and communication: self-developed instrument 2) Behavior determinants for physical activity and relaxation (discharge): Intention, action- and coping planning (self-developed instrument) 3) Behavior (after 6 months, after 12 months): 3.1) health-promoting behavior, active lifestyle: physical activity (Godin & Shephard, 1985); relaxation (self-developed according to Ströbl et al.); Health Education Impact Questionnaire (heiQ; Osborne et al., 2007, Schuler et al., 2013), subscale active engagement in life, health-promoting activities; 3.2) Interaction in the health system: Health Education Impact Questionnaire (heiQ; Osborne et al., 2007, Schuler et al., 2013), subscale health services navigation 4) Health Impairment (discharge, after 6 months, after 12 months): Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire without the physical functioning subscale (FIQ-G; Burckhardt et al., 1991, Offenbächer et al., 2000) 5) Depressive symptoms and anxiety (discharge, after 6 months, after 12 months): Short form of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-4; Löwe et al., 2010) 6) Participation (after 6 months, after 12 months): Fibromyalgia Participation Questionnaire (FPQ; Farin et al., 2013) 7) Socio-medical and health-economic parameters (discharge, after 6 months, after 12 months): sick leave days (not at discharge), subjective predicton of ability to work (SPE-Scale, Mittag & Raspe, 2003), treatment since rehabilitation (not at discharge) 8) Treatment satisfaction (discharge): Questionnaire of treatment satisfaction (according to Meng et al., 2009) | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactAndrea Reusch
Abteilung für Medizinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Medizinische Soziologie und Rehabilitationswissenschaften
Outcome results
None listed