Online mental health intervention improves anxiety in isolated scleroderma patients during the pandemic
People with a rare autoimmune disease, who likely experience more serious isolation during a global pandemic, saw their anxiety and depression improve after receiving online mental health intervention through an international study involving investigators from Michigan Medicine.
The paper, published in the
Lancet Rheumatology, analyzed the mental health progress of over 150 people with scleroderma, a disease that causes tightening of the skin and connective tissues. Researchers randomized patients to either receive video support intervention or be put on a waitlist, finding mental health outcomes improved after the program finished.
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Fatigue and Raynaud’s syndrome were rated “important” or “very important” as barriers to physical activity in at least 50% of patients with systemic sclerosis, according to survey results published in
Arthritis Care & Research.
“Being physically active is important for everybody, but it is difficult for people with scleroderma who face major barriers because of their disease,”
Sami Harb, BSc, of McGill University and the Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, in Montreal, Canada, told