Rheumatoid Arthritis
Conditions
Brief summary
A two-step multi-centre study with 240 rheumatoid arthritis patients.
Detailed description
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
Interventions
OTHERinstruction
online instruction tutorials at followup visits
OTHERstandard baseline instruction
self-guidance at followup visits
Sponsors
Charles University, Czech Republic
Region Capital Denmark
Henrik Gudbergsen
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 85 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Intrarater reliability of DAS28 done by patients | Baseline |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Interrater agreement of DAS28CRP | Baseline |
| Intrarater reliability of joints counts performed by patients | Baseline |
| Intrarater reliability of joint scores performed by patients | 8 weeks |
| Inter- and intrarater realiabilty of DAS38 | 8 weeks |
Countries
Denmark
Outcome results
None listed