Effect Study of on Intervention on Pain, Function, Health and Behaviour for Older Adults Living With Chronic Pain
Chronic Pain
About this trial
This is an interventional health services research trial for Chronic Pain focused on measuring chronic pain, community-dwelling, older adults, physical activity, physiotherapy, behavioural medicine, biopsychosocial, exercise, independency, everyday activities, self-efficacy, quality of life, pain-related beliefs, pain-related disability
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- 75 years, Living in the central part of Oslo, Norway Living alone in ordinary housing Dependent on home help services for individual care and/or housekeeping activities or home care for medical needs The presence of musculoskeletal pain for three month or longer Ability to walk independently indoors, with or without a walking aid Ability to understand and speak Norwegian Ability to fill in activity diary or to have someone to help them with that.
Exclusion Criteria:
Older adults ongoing physiotherapy treatment for injury/illness, Are in a palliative stage of treatment Have experienced heart failure in the past three months.
Sites / Locations
- Sara Cederbom
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Active Comparator
Individual tailored functional exercise
Standard care
Receives general advice about physical activity with the goal to be physically active at least 30 minutes per day at 5 of 7 days per week. The intervention group, which is based on a behavioural medicine approach in physiotherapy, also receive individual tailored functional exercise with the goal to enhance the ability to perform everyday activities by reduce pain-related disability and pain-related beliefs and increase physical function. The participants receive 9 visits from a physiotherapist during the 12 weeks period. The participants will also fill in a activity diary to check the compliance to the intervention and to enhance their self-efficacy in relation to perform everyday activities, exercise and physical activity.
The participants in the comparison Group will receive standard care which means that they receives one visit from physiotherapist where the participant receive general advice about physical activity with the goal to be physically active at least 30 minutes per day at 5 of 7 days per week. During intervention week 1-8 and 10 the participants receive telephone calls once a week where they will be reminded to follow the advice about physical activity.