Does Balnotherapy Influence the Qualitiy of Life in SLE

Polyclinic of the Hospitaller Brothers of St. John of God, Budapest

Status: Completed

Conditions: SLE

Treatments: Other: balneotherapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04392791

31959-2/2017/EKU

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of balneotherapy on the quality of life and on work productivity of SLE patients.

Full description

SLE patients in remission/low disease activity of three immunology centers were included in this randomized, controlled, follow-up study. In addition to the standard of care (SOC) sixteen out of the thirty SLE patients received balneotherapy (15 times, for 30 minutes) and fourteen patients received the SOC only. Prevalidated survey instruments including LupusQol, SF36, and WPAI questionnaires were recorded.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 79 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• diagnosis of SLE according to SLICC/ACR, 2012 criteria;
• remission or low disease activity, evaluated with SLEDAI-2K

Exclusion criteria

• explorable psychiatric disease
• general contraindications to balneotherapy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Treated group

Active Comparator group

Description:

The participants received thermal water therapy

Treatment:

Other: balneotherapy

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The participants haven't received thermal water therapy