Stoma Related Complications and Quality of Life Assessments Ethiopia and Sweden

Karolinska Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stoma Colostomy; Stoma Ileostomy

Treatments: Other: Quality of life assessment

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05970458

008/21/Surg

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cross-sectional comparative study of general and stoma-specific quality of life in patients with stoma in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, and Stockholm, Sweden.

Full description

Objective: To evaluate the quality of life for patients with ostomy in Ethiopia and Sweden using a general and a specific assessment tool.

Design: Comparative descriptive cross-sectional study. Setting: Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital (TASH), Addis Abeba and South General Hospital, Stockholm.

Participants/Exposure: Patients with a permanent ostomy visiting the stoma center in Addis Abeba, patients waiting for ostomy reversal at TASH, and patients visiting the stoma clinic at South General Hospital.

Main outcomes and measure: Quality of life and stoma specific quality of life: EQ5D-5L and Stoma QoL.

Enrollment: 66 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• adult patients (≥ 18 years old)
• having an ostomy for more than two months
• willingness and ability to give informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• non-intestinal stoma

Trial design

66 participants in 3 patient groups

Ethioperm

Description:

All patients with a permanent ostomy visiting the stoma center in Addis Abeba

Treatment:

Other: Quality of life assessment

EthioTemp

Description:

All patients waiting for ostomy reversal at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital

Treatment:

Other: Quality of life assessment

SweSto

Description:

All patients visiting the stoma clinic at South General Hospital

Treatment:

Other: Quality of life assessment