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Implementing a Group Physical Therapy Program for Veterans (GroupPT): Function QUERI 3.0

RECRUITINGN/ASponsored by VA Office of Research and Development
Actively Recruiting
PhaseN/A
SponsorVA Office of Research and Development
Started2026-04-30
Est. completion2030-09-30
Eligibility
Healthy vol.Accepted
Locations1 site

Summary

Implementing Group Physical Therapy for Veterans with Knee Osteoarthritis (Group PT): Function QUERI 3.0 aims to compare two implementation approaches for implementing Group PT in 20 VA facilities using a type III effectiveness-implementation hybrid study framework and parallel cluster randomized trial (CRT) design.

Eligibility

Healthy volunteers accepted
Inclusion Criteria:

Sites are eligible to participate if they have:

* 2 outpatient PT clinicians (one primary and one back-up) for delivering Group PT
* space to conduct group sessions (if delivering Group PT in person) or ability to conduct visits via telehealth (video)

Patients will be eligible for Group PT if they have a clinician diagnosis of symptomatic knee OA.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Site will be ineligible to participate if they are already conducting a group physical therapy class for patients with knee OA.
* Patients will be ineligible for Group PT if they have a substantial fall risk or co-occurring health conditions that would make participation in a group exercise class unsafe.

Conditions2

ArthritisKnee Osteoarthritis

Locations1 site

Durham VA Medical Center, Durham, NC
Durham, North Carolina, 27705-3875
Heidi D Bassani(919) 286-0411Heidi.Bassani@va.gov

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