Analysis of the Quality of Life, the Clinical Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of a Novel Educational Programme in Patients With Psoriasis and Atopic Dermatitis (OnderHUIDs)

Ghent University Hospital (UZ)

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 4

Conditions

Atopic Dermatitis

Psoriasis

Treatments

Behavioral: Stress-reduction techniques

Behavioral: education on skin disease conditions

Behavioral: Lifestyle factors and psycho-education

Other: no educational program

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01077882

2009/691

Details and patient eligibility

About

'OnderHUIDs' is an educational program (Department of Dermatology, University Hospital, Gent) for patients with psoriasis and atopic dermatitis. We want to stimulate the patient to actively participate in their therapeutic approach by enhanced self care. We call the hypothesis that this program will help the patients learn to cope with their disease and to be loyal to their treatment, which will result in a better quality of life, better clinical outcome and cost effectiveness.

Enrollment

50 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 75 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients who have given written informed consent
Women or men of any race
Patients who are 18-75 years of age
Diagnosis of psoriasis or atopic dermatitis

Exclusion criteria

Patients with a cognitive disorder (not able to understand, speak, read or write..)
Patients with a significant underlying medical cause (i.e. severe infection, haematologic disease, malignity, severe renal or hepatic disease, major depression) in the last 3 months
Patients under experimental pharmaceutical medication