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Feasibility of a Randomised Controlled Trial of Two Types of Written Information for People with Knee Osteoarthritis by Ben Darlow; Melanie Brown; Ben Hudson; Gareth Frew; Jane Clark; Loren Vincent; J.Haxby Abbott; Andrew M. Briggs; Rebecca Grainger; Carlo Marra; Eileen McKinlay; James Stanley is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Objective Test the feasibility of conducting an individually randomised controlled trial recruiting people with knee osteoarthritis (OA) in community pharmacies and evaluate the impacts of a novel information booklet. ## Design People with knee OA were identified by pharmacy staff using clinical criteria and randomised to receive a novel information booklet (intervention) or the currently available written OA resource (active control). Mixed-methods process evaluation assessed participant recruitment, retention, and experience. Participant-reported outcome measures, assessing OA illness perceptions, OA knowledge, fear of movement, and pain when walking at baseline and 4-weeks, were analysed using linear regression models (adjusted for baseline). ## Results Of 72 eligible people, 64 were randomised to intervention (n = 33) or control (n = 31). The randomisation sequence was followed correctly and no protocol deviations identified. Mean recruitment rate was 2.7 participants per pharmacy per week. One-in-five participants had no educational qualifications and one-in-four had not received a knee OA diagnosis prior to the trial. Three meta-themes emerged from pharmacist and parti
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- Author
- Ben Darlow; Melanie Brown; Ben Hudson; Gareth Frew; Jane Clark; Loren Vincent; J.Haxby Abbott; Andrew M. Briggs; Rebecca Grainger; Carlo Marra; Eileen McKinlay; James Stanley
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)