Active clinical trials for "Arthritis"

We will develop brief versions of the classic 6-week Arthritis Self-Management Program and evaluate their effectiveness.

The aim of this study is to compare the blood levels achieved with a new formulation of AZD5672 to an existing formulation of AZD5672 used in previous studies

The objective of this study is to determine the effects of an arthritis self-management program and an online support community delivered via an encrypted, secure web site on psychological well-being, pain, quality of life, global health status, and social supporting in adults with RA.

While there are a variety of arthritis education materials available, the evidence-base on most of them is slim, so it i impossible to know what benefits they may have for the people who participate. The purpose of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of the mail-delivered self-management education program, Arthritis Basics for Change (ABCS) with an emphasis on changes in knowledge, beliefs, behavior, self efficacy and health outcomes, and to evaluate the appropriateness, usefulness, and readibility of the program. This project will assist CDC's Arthritis Program in determining the usefulness of the ABCs program for helping people with arthritis improve their quality of life.

People with poor literacy may have worse health and less knowledge about how to manage their disease than patients at high reading levels. Patients with arthritis usually receive information on how to manage their disease that is written at an 11th grade reading level. The purpose of this study is to compare the health outcomes of patients with arthritis given either standard 11th grade level materials or interactive, in-person arthritis education along with materials written at a lower reading level.

The current study pretends to clarify, whether or not a healthy anti inflammatory diet improves different health-related outcomes in participants with rheumatoid arthritis.

The overall aim of this randomized control trial study is to investigate the effectiveness of a six-month, community based, pedometer supported, walking programme, along with an education programme incorporating behavioural change techniques on steps count and sedentary time, disease activity, functional capacity and cardiovascular risk of people within the first five years of being diagnosed with RA.

Recommendations of Rheumatoid Arthritis management agree on the necessity of patient self-involvement in the care. In parallel, the observation of the adoption rate of websites directed toward patients may indicate that this involvement is shared by a large number ot the population. However, most of these sites are only informative and few of them offer patients to be engaged to generate their own data that can impact on the patient-physician relationship by easing the dialog and then leading to better mutual understanding. As new web or mobile services allowing patients to self-report their outcomes are flourishing only a very few of them have already addressed the their impact of the patient-physician relationship. The main objective of this study is to quantify the effect of a website (Sanoia) on the quality of patient-doctor interactions, as perceived by the patient using the french translations of the Peppi Questionnaire during the 12 months observation period. In France, the patient protection committee (CPP) has ranked this study in "Soins Courants" (Usual Care).

In this phase 1 study, the lymphatic transport will be examined using Near InfraRed Indocyanine Green fluorescence imaging (NIR-ICG) of the upper extremities in healthy individuals using a MultiSpectral Imaging System (MSImager).

Objectives To investigate the effect of achieving minimal disease activity (MDA) using a protocolized treatment strategy on the progression of subclinical atherosclerosis and arterial stiffness in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) patients. Hypothesis Effective suppression of inflammation in patients who can achieve MDA will have less progression of subclinical atherosclerosis and arterial stiffness then patients who cannot achieve MDA by means of a standardized treatment algorithm aiming at MDA. Design and subjects One hundred consecutive PsA patients will participate in this 2-year prospective, hospital-based, cohort study. Interventions All participants will receive 2-year tight-control treatment. Treatment will be adjusted according to a standardized protocol based on the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) recommendation and the Hong Kong guideline on the use of biologics every 4-monthly aiming at MDA. Study instruments Carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) will be measured using high-resolution ultrasound. Arterial stiffness is measured using pulse wave velocity (PWV) by a dedicated tonometry system and augmentation index (AIx) by the SphygmoCor device. Main outcome measures and analysis The main outcome measure is the change in IMT over a period of 2 years comparing between patients who achieve MDA at 12 months (MDA group) to those who cannot achieve MDA (non-MDA group). Secondary outcomes include differences in the changes in AIx and PWV over 2 years between the 2 groups. Comparisons of the changes in IMT, AIx and PWV over 2 years between the MDA and non-MDA groups will be performed.