Resilience And Healthy Lifestyle for Rheumatoid Arthritis (The RA-HEAL trial): a randomised, parallel group, placebo-controlled clinical trial protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The importance of self-management strategies that optimise physical health and mental health in the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is recognised, but access to multidisciplinary teams to support this can be challenging. Furthermore, evidence for the impact of multidisciplinary interventions, especially in early RA, is lacking.

Methods

The Resilience and Healthy Lifestyle for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA-HEAL) Trial is a pragmatic RCT that aims to compare the effects of a structured multidisciplinary lifestyle intervention with self-directed activities in best-practice usual care. The 20-week multi-modal intervention incorporates structured resilience training conducted by a clinical health psychologist (CHP), followed by an exercise physiologist (EP)-led exer

SUBMITTER: Poulsen KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12482164 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature