Contagious Itch, Disgust and Empathy in Patients and Medical Staff
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 24
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Intensity of emotion (CI, disgust and empathy) in family infested with scabies
研究概览
简要总结
This study is to assess the relationship between CI, disgust and empathy in medical staff treating patients with scabies, to differentiate the impact of visual and verbal stimuli contributing to CI and to assess information about CI, disgust and empathy in a family infested with scabies.
详细描述
Itch is the commonest skin-related symptom, defined as a bodily sensation provoking the urge to scratch. The induction of itch and scratching by mere (audio-) visual stimuli such as pictures of insects on skin or video clips showing individuals scratching themselves, indicates that itch can be perceived in the absence of a pruritogenic somatosensory stimulus. This phenomenon is referred to as "contagious itch" (CI). CI may play a special role in the content of scabies both for the affected patients as well as the treating staff: It is a very common phenomenon that family members who are not infested by scabies themselves experience itch when watching their infested relatives scratching. The same is very frequently expressed by health care professionals being confronted with scabies patients. Two further important factors may be involved in the context of CI: disgust and empathy. Empathy is defined as a psychological concept that enables individuals to understand and share emotions of others. Disgust is an emotional response of revulsion to potentially contagious and/or harmful objects or subjects. This study is to assess the relationship between CI, disgust and empathy in medical staff treating patients with scabies, to differentiate the impact of visual and verbal stimuli contributing to CI and to assess information about CI, disgust and empathy in a family infested with scabies.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Diagnostic
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 7 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •members of families (aged >7 years) hospitalized in the Department of Dermatology with scabies
- •staff (physicians, nurses, nurse aids aged >16 years) involved in the treatment of these families
- •Infestation of scabies in individual family members confirmed by two leading dermatologists of the University Hospital Basel by dermoscopy and/or skin scrapings.
排除标准
- 未提供
研究组 & 干预措施
family infested with scabies
干预措施: 10-items-questionnaire addressing previous dermatological conditions, intensity of itch (Other)
family infested with scabies
干预措施: ItchyQol-questionnaire composed of 22 items addressing itch-related symptoms, functions and emotions (Other)
medical staff treating patients with scabies
干预措施: 7-items-questionnaires addressing CI, disgust and empathy (Other)
medical staff treating patients with scabies
干预措施: Saarbrucken Personality questionnaire (SPQ) addressing empathy. (Other)
family infested with scabies
干预措施: Saarbrucken Personality questionnaire (SPQ) addressing empathy. (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Intensity of emotion (CI, disgust and empathy) in family infested with scabies
时间窗: one point assessment at baseline (first day of hospitalisation)
Score in 10-items-questionnaire addressing intensity of itch a.) on the first day of their hospitalisation, b.) when seeing the skin lesions of the other family members c.) when talking about the scabies/itch with the other family members, d.) when seeing other family members scratching themselves and intensity of disgust of the scabies and intensity of empathy for the other family members (0-10 NRS).
Empathy scored by Saarbrucken Personality Questionnaire (SPQ)
时间窗: one point assessment at baseline (first day of hospitalisation)
The Saarbrucken personality questionnaire SPQ is the German version of the Interpersonality Reactivity Index (IRI) used for the measurement of empathy. The tool is a self-report answered on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from "Does not describe me well" to "Describes me very well".
Intensity of emotion (CI, disgust and empathy) in medical staff treating patients with scabies
时间窗: one point assessment at baseline
Score in 7-items-questionnaire including numerical rating scales (NRS) ranging from 0 (no itch/disgust/empathy) to 10 (worst itch/disgust/most empathy imaginable) to rate itch, disgust and empathy they experience when treating the infested families. The questionnaire (see Appendix) contains questions regarding demographic information (gender, age, profession), previous dermatological conditions, intensity of itch a.) before interacting with the patients, b.) when listening to the patients telling about their infestation with scabies, c.) when seeing the skin lesions, d.) when seeing patients scratching themselves, and questions regarding their intensity of disgust of the scabies and empathy for the families (0-10 NRS).
次要结局
未报告次要终点