Effectiviteit van een operatie voor het behandelen van blozen en bloosangst.
- Conditions
- Pathological blushing and fear of blushing
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON25945
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Amsterdam, VU Medical Center
- Brief Summary
/A
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 44
Inclusion Criteria
Incapacitating facial blushing.
Exclusion Criteria
1. Being under 18;
Furthermore, people are not allowed to undergo sympathetic surgery when they have:
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Fear of blushing subscale of the Blushing, Trembling and Sweating Questionaire (BTSQ; Bögels & Reith, 1999). This questionnaire assesses fear of showing somatic symptoms;<br /><br>2. Cheek coloration will be used to index blushing and will be recorded from a plethysmograph transducer fastened to the skin with tape for sensitive skin on the zygomatic bone near the inner canthus. As a second measure, cheek temperature will be monitored unilaterally with a semi-conductive thermistor fastened to the skin, just below the plethysmograph transducer. Blushing will be measured during a baseline rest period and during a social task;<br /><br>3. Social anxiety will be measured with the Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS; Mattick & Clarke, 1998); the brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (BFNE; Leary, 1983); the social phobia subscale of the Fear Questionnaire (FQ; Marks and Mathews, 1979).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The subjects will complete the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D; Radloff, 1977) and the nineteen-item version of the Blushing Propensity Scale (BPS; Bögels, Alberts & de Jong, 1996). Furthermore, implicit self-esteem will be assessed using an Implicit Association Test (Glashouwer, de Jong, Dijk & Buwalda, 2011); explicit self-esteem using the Rosenberg Self-Esteem scale (Rosenberg, 1965); interpretations about will be assessed with the Blush Cognitions Questionnaire (Dijk, et al., 2009) and with a recognition task (Dulken, van, 2010). The SCID-I/P (Spitzer et al., 1992) will be used as a diagnostic interview to examine the presence of psychopathology.