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Rehabilitation and Return to Everyday Life for Patients With Long COVID
Sponsor: Defactum, Central Denmark Region
Summary
This non-randomised controlled trial will investigate if patients with long COVID receiving a structured and group-based rehabilitation intervention (The Long COVID Rehabilitation Intervention) will report a difference in mean change in self-reported mental fatigue measured by Mental Fatigue Scale and will report a mean difference in weeks of sick-leave obtained through the Danish Register for Evaluation of Marginalisation compared to usual practise over a 12-month follow-up period. Alongside the effectiveness evaluation, a economic evaluation study and process evaluation study will be conducted, Patients from Aarhus Municipality, Central Denmark Region, Denmark, receive The Long COVID Rehabilitation Intervention and will be allocated to the intervention group. Patients receiving rehabilitation in the other municipalities of Central Denmark Region, Denmark, will be allocated to the control group. Alongside this, a health economic study and a process evaluation study will be conducted.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
914
Start Date
2020-11-23
Completion Date
2026-08-31
Last Updated
2024-08-14
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
The Long COVID Rehabilitation Intervention
The intervention is a structured rehabilitation intervention with a duration of minimum 3 months comprising 4-12 individual sessions and 1-4 group-based courses delivered by physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
Usual care
A less structured rehabilitation programme comprising individual session with a few group options with patients with long COVID or mixed diagnoses.
Locations (1)
Aarhus University Hospital
Aarhus, Denmark