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Physical-activity coaching and health status in rheumatoid arthritis: A person-oriented approach
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, Physiotheraphy.
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2010 (English)In: Disability and Rehabilitation, ISSN 0963-8288, E-ISSN 1464-5165, Vol. 32, no 10, p. 816-825Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Purpose

 No interventions to promote physical activity can succeed for all participants. Insights into the specific characteristics of those who do succeed are needed. One aim was to investigate whether a selection of correlates of general health perception creates cluster typologies in individuals with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Another was to evaluate whether magnitude of change in health status differs between clusters after a 1-year coaching intervention targeting health-enhancing physical activity.

Method

 Two hundred and twenty-eight patients (74% women, mean age 56 years, disease duration 1 year) with RA, from 10 rheumatology clinics in Sweden, participated. The patients were assigned at random to intervention or control. The intervention group underwent 1 year of coaching to adopt health-enhancing physical activity (moderately intensive, 30 min/day, > 4 days/week). The cluster analysis included five correlates of general health perception: disease activity; pain; timed standing; activity limitation; and self-reported physical activity. The primary outcome of the coaching intervention was self-reported health status.

Results

 One-hundred and forty-six patients were eligible for inclusion in the cluster analysis. The eight clusters identified both at baseline and post interventions were operationalized according to the number of cluster variables affected: less (LE) affected or more (MO) affected, respectively. Clusters with I F. affected variables had significantly better general health perception at baseline than those with MO affected variables. Further, coached individuals in MO affected clusters significantly improved self-reported health status compared both to those coached in LE affected clusters and to those in MO affected clusters in the control group.

Conclusion

 This person-based approach contributed more than did the results in a previous randomized controlled trial to the understanding of which patients benefit most from the present physical-activity coaching intervention. The intervention may thus be most beneficial for individuals more severely affected by their disease at baseline.

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2010. Vol. 32, no 10, p. 816-825
Keywords [en]
Physical activity, rheumatoid arthritis, cluster analysis
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-137753DOI: 10.3109/09638280903314069ISI: 000277277800004OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-137753DiVA, id: diva2:378853
Available from: 2010-12-16 Created: 2010-12-15 Last updated: 2017-12-11Bibliographically approved

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