Ventral Hernia Improvement of Treatment and Life (VITAL)

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Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Incisional Hernia; Ventral Hernia; Parastomal Hernia

Treatments: Other: Quality of life questionnair

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06864377

p-2024-17652

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial called the VITAL study is to learn if surgery has a positive impact on the quality of life in patients with incisional or parastomal hernia. The main questions it aims to answer are:

Does surgery alleviate patients from their initial problem? Does new discomfort arise after surgery? Do the symptoms worsen, and does quality of life deteriorate in patients who are not offered surgery? The project will also look at time to surgery and postoperative complications. Researchers will send questionnaires to the patients to answer.

Participants will:

Answer the baseline questionnaire. Answer the follow-up questionnaires at 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, and 3 years after surgery or after the baseline questionnaire has been completed for those patients being managed conservatively with observation

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• >18 years
• Incisional hernia or parastomal hernia

Exclusion criteria

• Can't understand or read Danish

Trial design

300 participants in 2 patient groups

Patients with incisinal hernias

Description:

Patients with incisional hernias who are either offered surgery or conservative treatment

Patients with parastomal hernias

Description:

Patients with parastomal hernias who are either offered surgery or conservative treatment