Chronic Hand Eczema - Self-management and Prognosis

University Hospital, Gentofte, Copenhagen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Hand Eczema; Chronic Hand Dermatitis

Treatments: Behavioral: Healthy Skin Clinic

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT01482663

CHE-2011-Geh

Details and patient eligibility

About

Hand eczema is a common disease which often gives a chronic course thus affecting many functions in daily life. The body of evidence related to self-management of chronic hand eczema is poor. Better methods to support self-management of patients with chronic hand eczema may potentially improve the prognosis of a disease which is both a tremendous burden to the individual and to the society. The purpose of this trial is to evaluate the effect of a newly designed guidance programme offering individual counselling compared to conventional information with written information sheets.

Full description

Detailed description of the trial and the intervention can be found in the publication:

Mollerup A, Veien NK, Johansen JD. Chronic hand eczema--self-management and prognosis: a study protocol for a randomised clinical trial'. BMC Dermatol. 2012 Jun 12;12:6. doi: 10.1186/1471-5945-12-6.

PMID: 22691871 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE] Free PMC Article

Enrollment: 306 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients clinically diagnosed with hand eczema at the first medical consultation at the outpatient ward, Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte or at a private dermatologic practise in Aalborg, Denmark
• Patients who have given a signed informed consent to participate

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who cannot reply to a questionnaire in Danish

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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306 participants in 2 patient groups

Chronic hand eczema patients

No Intervention group

Description:

Written information sheets and a 14-minutes DVD about hand eczema handed out by the dermatologist

Behavioral: Healthy Skin Clinic

Experimental group

Description:

1-2 counselling sessions with a nurse, tailored according to individual risks and resources and user access to a website comprising a self-monitoring log, a patients' forum and the possibility of communication with the intervention team of nurses

Treatment:

Behavioral: Healthy Skin Clinic