Quality of Life in Juvenile Patients With Uveitis

Hospital Hietzing

Status: Completed

Conditions: Uveitis

Treatments: Other: Filling in a psychometric questionnaire

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01495767

MAC205

Details and patient eligibility

About

Data about psychodynamics in uveitis patients are scare. A negative impact of disease is described not only in adult patients with active, but also with quiescent disease. During adolescence even less is known about psychodynamics although this is an especially sensible and challenging stage of life. Given the assumption that juvenile patients with quiescent disease still could suffer from emotional distress, this would require special attention.

In this study the investigators evaluate the impact of juvenile uveitis on HRQoL and attempted to identify clinical and demographic factors contributing to an impaired health status. The investigators limit the study to patients with quiescent uveitis and good visual function in at least one eye to exclude additional negative stressors. As there are no validated uveitis-specific psychometric questionnaires evaluating QoL available yet, the investigators use age-appropriate generic instruments. This should allow obtaining an overview about the adolescents' general Health-related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and whether psychological interventions should be offered to this sensitive patient group.

Enrollment: 37 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 11 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with uveitis
• aged 11-18 years
• willing to participate
• parent or legal guardian agrees with participation of adolescent

Exclusion criteria

• not willing to participate
• parent or legal guardian does not agree with participation of adolescent

Trial design

37 participants in 1 patient group

females, males

Description:

females: patients of female sex males: patients of male sex

Treatment:

Other: Filling in a psychometric questionnaire