Publications by authors named "E Ginnerup-Nielsen"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to compare the effects of two types of conversations—an illness perception conversation (IPC) and a research participation conversation (RPC)—on changes in knee pain over two weeks in patients with knee osteoarthritis.
- It was a randomized trial where patients had either IPC or RPC conversations, followed by a saline injection in their most painful knee; the primary outcome measured was the change in knee pain using a visual analogue scale.
- Results showed both groups experienced a similar decrease in pain, indicating that the IPC did not provide any additional pain relief compared to the RPC, with no significant differences in quality of life or daily living activities.
Objective: This study aimed to explore whether phenotypic characteristics of patients with chronic widespread pain (CWP) and fibromyalgia (FM) can be aggregated into definable clusters that may help to tailor treatments.
Method: Baseline variables (sex, age, education, marital/employment status, pain duration, prior CWP/FM diagnosis, concomitant rheumatic disease, analgesics, tender point count, and disease variables derived from standardized questionnaires) collected from 1099 patients (93.4% females, mean age 44.
Background: Colchicine has been suggested for osteoarthritis treatment, but evidence is contradictory. We aimed to investigate colchicine's efficacy and safety compared with placebo in people with hand osteoarthritis.
Methods: In this single-centre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial we recruited adults with symptomatic hand osteoarthritis and finger pain of at least 40 mm on a 100 mm visual analogue scale from an outpatient clinic in Denmark.
Objective: To compare illness perception (IP), pain, functional level and health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) between patients with musculoskeletal pain who participate versus those who do not participate in clinical research projects.
Methods: Data were collected between 1 January 2019 and 31 December 2021 in patients visiting the Outpatient Osteoarthritis Clinic at Frederiksberg Hospital, Copenhagen, as part of either clinical research or regular treatment. Questionnaires were collected at baseline and after 10-18 months.
Objective: The Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (B-IPQ) is a frequently used measure of illness perception (IP). The aim of this study was to explore the psychometric properties of the questionnaire when used in elderly people with knee pain.
Method: Based on data from the Frederiksberg Cohort on elderly people reporting knee pain (N = 836), the psychometric properties of the eight B-IPQ items (1 'Consequences', 2 'Timeline', 3 'Personal control', 4 'Treatment control', 5 'Identity', 6 'Concern', 7 'Coherence', and 8 'Emotions') were analysed using Rasch analysis to establish whether the questionnaire provides reliable and valid measures of IP.