Physical Activity Management for Clients with Arthritis

关节炎患者的身体活动管理

• 批准号: 6959887
• 负责人: ROWLAND W CHANG
• 金额: $ 54.79万
• 依托单位: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6959887
• 关键词: actigraphy; arthritis therapy; behavior therapy; behavioral /social science research tag; blood pressure; body physical activity; clinical research; clinical trials; counseling; functional ability; health behavior; health care referral /consultation; human subject; human therapy evaluation; knee; lifestyle; motivation; osteoarthritis; pain; patient oriented research; physical fitness; quality of life; questionnaires; rheumatoid arthritis

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Arthritis is a major cause of disability. Of the nearly 70 million persons in the US with arthritis and/or chronic joint symptoms, nearly 8 million are disabled because of their arthritis. Knee osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are two of its most common and disabling forms. Despite evidence that physical activity can improve functional and health related quality of life (HRQOL) outcomes and lower health care costs, the proportion of the US population engaging in the recommended amount of physical activity is low and even lower among those with arthritis. Moreover, there is considerable variation in clinicians' promotion of physical activity for arthritis clients. Care providers infrequently ask clients about their physical activity behavior and report feeling unprepared to promote physical activity. This application studies the effects of a behavioral intervention aimed at promoting physical activity, including lifestyle physical activity, on arthritis-specific and generic HRQOL outcomes. The proposed physical activity management program (PAM) is based on a chronic care model in which allied health professionals promote patient self-management activities outside of traditional physician office encounters. The program is an individualized counseling and referral intervention, conducted by physical activity managers, directed by a theory-based comprehensive assessment of individual patient barriers and strengths related to physical activity performance. The specific aims of this randomized, controlled trial of 480 clients with RA and knee OA followed for 24 months are to test the effectiveness of physical activity management combined with physician physical activity promotion (PAM group) compared to physician physical activity promotion only (control group) in improving arthritis-specific and generic HRQOL, observed measures of function, and objectively measured and self-reported physical activity levels. In addition, exploratory analyses will be done to assess whether the improvements in HRQOL and physical activity performance associated with the PAM program are mediated by increases in physical activity levels and theory-based motivational variables, respectively. This study is intended to generate feasible methods by which health care providers and health care systems can increase physical activity levels in clients with arthritis and to result in widely applicable strategies for health behavior change.

描述（由申请人提供）：关节炎是致残的主要原因。美国有近7000万人患有关节炎和/或慢性关节症状，其中近800万人因关节炎而致残。膝骨关节炎（OA）和类风湿性关节炎（RA）是其最常见和致残的两种形式。尽管有证据表明体育活动可以改善功能和健康相关的生活质量（HRQOL）结果并降低医疗保健成本，但美国人口中从事推荐量体育活动的比例很低，关节炎患者的比例甚至更低。此外，临床医生在促进关节炎患者的身体活动方面存在相当大的差异。护理人员很少询问客户的体育活动行为，并报告说他们没有准备好促进体育活动。本应用研究旨在促进身体活动（包括生活方式身体活动）的行为干预对关节炎特异性和一般HRQOL结果的影响。拟议的身体活动管理计划（PAM）是基于慢性护理模式，在这种模式中，专职卫生专业人员在传统的医生办公室会面之外促进患者自我管理活动。该项目是一种个性化的咨询和转诊干预，由体育活动管理人员进行，以理论为基础的对个体患者与体育活动表现相关的障碍和优势的综合评估为指导。这项随机对照试验的具体目的是