Prevention of Hand Eczema Among Workers in the Fishing Industry in Greenland (HEFIG)

Bispebjerg Hospital

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Hand Eczema

Treatments: Behavioral: Prevention programme

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06997393

2024-15101 (Other Identifier)

LF-ST-24-500016

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to investigate the effect of a prevention programme on hand eczema among workers in the Greenlandic fishing industry. This is a non-randomised clinical trial including employees at four of Royal Greenland's fish processing facilities in Greenland.

Enrollment: 70 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Employee in Royal Greenland, a state-owned company and one of the largest seafood enterprises in the world
• Written informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Age below 18 years
• Inability to understand the Greenlandic, Danish or English language
• Pregnancy
• Other chronic skin diseases on the hands
• Receiving immunomodulatory therapies

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Prevention programme

Experimental group

Description:

The participants will have access to a prevention programme.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Prevention programme

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The participants will not have access to a prevention programme.