The effects of a mobile app-delivered intervention in people with symptomatic hand osteoarthritis: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Exercise therapy, self-management and education are recommended interventions for hand osteoarthritis (OA), but new delivery systems are needed to solve lack of adherence.

Aim

To determine the effects on hand function and pain related measures of a mobile app-delivered intervention, compared with usual care, in patients with symptomatic hand OA.

Design

A pragmatic, multicenter, two-group parallel randomized controlled trial.

Setting

Community health centers in rural southern Spain.

Population

Eighty-three participants with unilateral or bilateral symptomatic hand OA were proposed to participate, and finally 74 were included and randomized.

Methods

Participants received a home multimodal treatment (exercise, education, and self-managemen

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez Sanchez-Laulhe P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10035439 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature