Occupational Hand Eczema - Testing of a Prevention-concept

National Allergy Research Center, Denmark

Status: Completed

Conditions: Occupational Contact Dermatitis

Treatments: Other: Treatment at the skin department at Gentofte Hospital

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04790799

P-2019-650

Details and patient eligibility

About

Randomised controlled trial examining the effect of decreased waiting time for the first doctors' appointment, patient education, glove counselling and counselling at departments of social or occupational medicine on severity of hand eczema, quality of life, use of corticosteroids, and jobsituation 3-12 months after intervention in patients with suspected occupational contact dermatitis of the hands.

Full description

Patients with suspected occupational hand eczema are recruited to the study on basis of their referral from general practitioner to dermatologist. Patients are randomised to either control or intervention group. The control group is treated and followed-up by the dermatologist they have been referred to, while the intervention group is treated and followed-up at Gentofte Hospital skin department with a maximum waiting time of 3 weeks. At the skin department at Gentofte Hospital, the patients in the intervention group receive patient education in prevention and treatment of hand eczema, glove counselling, personal product screening by a chemistry engineer, extended allergy testing and the standard treatment of hand eczema. Patients in both the control and intervention group are asked to fill out a questionnaire at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months after inclusion in the study. The questionnaire contains questions about quality of life, severity of hand exzema, jobsituation, use of healthcare service and use of medicine. Furthermore, prescriptions of medicine are registered in both control and intervention group at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Referred from a general practitioner to a dermatologist
• Hand eczema within the last 3 months
• Suspicion that the hand eczema is work-related (either patient and/or doctors suspicion)

Exclusion criteria

• Does not read and write danish
• Severe psychiatric illness
• Pregnancy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Treatment in a hospital setting at Gentofte Hospital skin department with patient education, glove counselling, personal product screening by a chemistry engineer, extended allergy testing and the standard treatment of hand eczema.

Treatment:

Other: Treatment at the skin department at Gentofte Hospital

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Treatment as usual (at a dermatologist office).