Quality of Life in Juvenile Patients With Uveitis

Completed

• Conditions: Uveitis
• Interventions: Other: Filling in a psychometric questionnaire

• Registration Number: NCT01495767
• Lead Sponsor: Hospital Hietzing

Brief Summary

Data about psychodynamics in uveitis patients are scare. A negative impact of disease is described not only in adult patients with active, but also with quiescent disease. During adolescence even less is known about psychodynamics although this is an especially sensible and challenging stage of life. Given the assumption that juvenile patients with quiescent disease still could suffer from emotional distress, this would require special attention.

In this study the investigators evaluate the impact of juvenile uveitis on HRQoL and attempted to identify clinical and demographic factors contributing to an impaired health status. The investigators limit the study to patients with quiescent uveitis and good visual function in at least one eye to exclude additional negative stressors. As there are no validated uveitis-specific psychometric questionnaires evaluating QoL available yet, the investigators use age-appropriate generic instruments. This should allow obtaining an overview about the adolescents' general Health-related Quality of Life (HRQoL) and whether psychological interventions should be offered to this sensitive patient group.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2006-01
• Study Completion: 2009-07
• Study First Submitted: 2011-11-27
• Status Verified: 2011-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-12-19
• Study First Posted: 2011-12-20
• Last Update Submitted: 2011-12-22
• Last Update Posted: 2011-12-23

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 37

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients with uveitis
• aged 11-18 years
• willing to participate
• parent or legal guardian agrees with participation of adolescent

Exclusion Criteria

• not willing to participate
• parent or legal guardian does not agree with participation of adolescent

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
females, males	Filling in a psychometric questionnaire	females: patients of female sex males: patients of male sex

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of life as assessed with the "Inventory for Assessing the Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents"	One day	psychometric inventory

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of life as assessed with the "Children Quality of Life Questionnaire"	One day	psychometric inventory

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Medical University of Vienna; 🇦🇹 Vienna, Austria