Therapists' experiences of remotely delivering cognitive-behavioural or graded-exercise interventions for fatigue: a qualitative evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Fatigue is a challenging feature of all inflammatory rheumatic diseases. LIFT (Lessening the Impact of Fatigue in inflammatory rheumatic diseases: a randomized Trial) included remotely delivered personalized exercise programme (PEP) or cognitive-behavioural approach (CBA) interventions. The aim of this nested qualitative evaluation was to understand rheumatology health professionals' (therapists') perspectives of delivering the interventions in the LIFT trial.

Methods

A subgroup of therapists who had delivered the personalized exercise programme (PEP) and cognitive-behavioural approach (CBA) interventions took part in semi-structured telephone interviews.

Results

Seventeen therapists (13 women and 4 men) who delivered PEP (n = 8) or CBA (n = 9)

SUBMITTER: Bennett SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9629972 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature