Quality of Life in Juvenile Patients With Uveitis

• Sponsor: Hospital Hietzing (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT01495767
• Collaborator: Medical University of Vienna (Other)
• Enrollment: 37
• Location: 1
• Duration (Months): 42
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 0.9

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

Data about psychodynamics in uveitis patients are scare. A negative impact of disease is described not only in adult patients with active, but also with quiescent disease. During adolescence even less is known about psychodynamics although this is an especially sensible and challenging stage of life. Given the assumption that juvenile patients with quiescent disease still could suffer from emotional distress, this would require special attention.

In this study the investigators evaluate the impact of juvenile uveitis on HRQoL and attempted to identify clinical and demographic factors contributing to an impaired health status. The investigators limit the study to patients with quiescent uveitis and good visual function in at least one eye to exclude additional negative stressors. As there are no validated uveitis-specific psychometric questionnaires evaluating QoL available yet, the investigators use age-appropriate generic instruments. This should allow obtaining an overview about the adolescents' general Health-related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and whether psychological interventions should be offered to this sensitive patient group.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Uveitis	Other: Filling in a psychometric questionnaire

Study Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Actual Enrollment: 37 participants
• Observational Model: Cohort
• Official Title: The Impact of Uveitis on Health-related Quality of Life in Adolescents
• Study Start Date: Jan 1, 2006
• Actual Study Completion Date: Jul 1, 2009

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
females, males females: patients of female sex males: patients of male sex	Other: Filling in a psychometric questionnaire; Juvenile patients attending the uveitis are asked to fill in a psychometric questionnaire

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Quality of life as assessed with the "Inventory for Assessing the Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents" [One day]

   psychometric inventory

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. Quality of life as assessed with the "Children Quality of Life Questionnaire" [One day]

   psychometric inventory

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 11 Years to 18 Years
• Sexes Eligible for Study: All
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients with uveitis

• aged 11-18 years

• willing to participate

• parent or legal guardian agrees with participation of adolescent

Exclusion Criteria:

• not willing to participate

• parent or legal guardian does not agree with participation of adolescent

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Medical University of Vienna	Vienna		Austria	1090

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Hospital Hietzing
• Medical University of Vienna

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: Saskia M Maca, MD, Hospital Hietzing, Vienna + Medical University of Vienna, Vienna

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Saskia M Maca, MD, principal investigator, Hospital Hietzing
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01495767
• Other Study ID Numbers: MAC205
• First Posted: Dec 20, 2011
• Last Update Posted: Dec 23, 2011
• Last Verified: Dec 1, 2011

• Keywords provided by Saskia M Maca, MD, principal investigator, Hospital Hietzing: childhood uveitis; health-related quality of life; gender
• Additional relevant MeSH terms: Uveitis

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Dec 23, 2011