Looking at physical, mental and social traits of people with knee osteoarthritis
Examines pain, mood, sleep and daily life in adults with knee osteoarthritis.
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Aysima Barlak
- Where
- Ankara, TürkiyeSee the site
- Trial code
- Registry title
- Investigation of Biopsychosocial Characteristics of Individuals with Knee Osteoarthritis
- Status
- Not yet recruiting
- People taking part
- 100 people, planned
- Started
- 1 Mar 2025
- Expected to end
- 9 Sept 2027
- Type of study
- Observational
- Treatments tested
- Home exercise program
- Record updated
- 12 February 2025
Who can take part
AI summary
From the trial's eligibility criteria. Machine-read from the registry text on this page, so it can be wrong. The registry text below and the trial team decide who can take part.
The trial is looking for adults with knee osteoarthritis, to study their pain, mood, sleep, daily function and social life.
- Age
- 18 years or older
- Sex
- All
- Disease stage
- Knee osteoarthritis diagnosed by the ACR criteria, stage 2 or 3 on the Kellgren-Lawrence X-ray scale. Stage 4 cannot join.
- Earlier treatment
- People cannot join if they had a physiotherapy program for the same knee in the last 3 months.
Main reasons for not taking part
- History of major psychiatric illness
- Cancer
- Chronic infection, other rheumatic disease or collagen tissue disease
- Serious knee injury or knee surgery in the last 6 months
- History of peripheral vascular disease or nerve damage (neuropathy)
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis according to ACR knee osteoarthritis diagnostic criteria
- Being in stage 2 or 3 according to Kellgren-Lawrence radiological staging criteria
- To be 18 years of age or older
- Being a reader-writer
- Having read and signed the informed consent
Who cannot take part
- Serious knee trauma or surgical operation in the last 6 months
- To have received a physiotherapy program for the relevant knee in the last 3 months
- History of major psychiatric illness
- Having malignant disease
- Having chronic infectious or other rheumatologic diseases
- Having collagen tissue disease
- History of peripheral vascular disease or neuropathy
- Being in stage 4 according to Kellgren Lawrence radiologic staging criteria
Where in Türkiye
- Hacettepe UniversityAnkara, TürkiyeContact: Aysima Barlak, LicenseNo longer taking part
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Since pain and depression are observed together in rheumatic diseases, the concept of limitation caused by the disease and health-related quality of life becomes more determinant than radiological joint damage. Sleep problems observed in OA also increase the level of depression findings and difficulty in movement. The chronic nature of the disease includes issues such as pain, fatigue, sleep problems, loss of function, anxiety, depression, and social isolation, together as in other chronic diseases. This complex structure accompanies a picture in which inflammatory processes are triggered.
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When the literature is examined, the necessity of evaluation and methods including all these biopsychosocial characteristics of chronic diseases with multifaceted symptoms is emphasized. On the other hand, although it is stated that the common goal of non-pharmacological treatments is to contribute to biopsychosocial improvement in the patient, it is emphasized that evaluations with biopsychosocial content are insufficient. This situation causes the need for scales that provide a holistic assessment of chronic diseases. When the literature, including individuals diagnosed with osteoarthritis, is analyzed, the inadequacy of the studies providing biopsychosocial evaluation draws attention.
Treatments tested
- Home exercise program
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Investigation of Biopsychosocial Characteristics of Individuals Diagnosed with Knee Osteoarthritis
- Plain-language title
- Looking at physical, mental and social traits of people with knee osteoarthritisGenerated from the registry record. The registry title is the official one.
- AI summary
- From the trial's eligibility criteria. Read by machine on 14 November 2026.
- Record updated
- 12 February 2025