Web/Internet-based telemonitoring of a randomised controlled trial evaluating the time-integrated effects of a 24-week multicomponent intervention on key health outcomes in patients with fibromyalgia

Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

Volumn 33, Issue , 2015, Pages S93-S101

  Salaffi, Fausto ^a   Ciapetti, Alessandro ^a   Gasparini, Stefania ^a   Atzeni, Fabiola ^b   Sarzi Puttini, Piercarlo ^c   Baroni, Marinella ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO ORTOPEDICO GALEAZZI   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^d Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation C Urbani Hospital ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Fibromyalgia; Multicomponent therapy; Pharmacological therapy; Physical exercise; Telemonitoring; Web Internet

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; FIBROMYALGIA IMPACT QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROCOMPUTER; MUSCLE TRAINING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TELEMONITORING; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SLEEP; TELEMEDICINE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNET; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SLEEP; TELEMEDICINE; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84929271739     PISSN: 0392856X     EISSN: 1593098X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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