Quality of Life of Eye Amputated Patients in Denmark

University of Copenhagen

Status: Completed

Conditions: Panophthalmia; Painful Blind Eye; Eye Cancer; Traumas

Treatments: Procedure: eye amputation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01072253

Velux270479

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate eye amputated patients health related quality of life, perceived stress, self-rated health, labour marked participation and socio-economic position.

The investigators hypothesis is that quality of life, perceived stress and self- rated health of many eye amputated patients are drastically changed. Eye amputation has a marked negative influence on labour marked participation and socio-economic position of the patients.

Enrollment: 152 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Inclusion criteria were operation for evisceration, enucleation, orbital exenteration or secondary implantation of an orbital implant during the period 1996-2003. 267 patients were in 2005 invited to a clinical investigation and of those 173 accepted.
• Included in this study were patients who came to the clinical investigation, who accepted to receive questionnaires and were alive in 2008.

Exclusion criteria

• Dead
• Below 18 years
• Left the country
• Living at Greenland or the Faeroe Islands

Trial design

152 participants in 1 patient group

eye amputated

Description:

lost an eye

Treatment:

Procedure: eye amputation