Comparing smell training and a medicine in the treatment of patients with loss of smell
Phase 3
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: R00-R99- Symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2020/01/022613
- Lead Sponsor
- Christian medical College
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Patients above 16 years of age
History of loss of smell
Severe hyposmia or anosmia on evaluation
No identifiable cause
Exclusion Criteria
Patients below 16 years of age
Pregnancy
Etiology of smell loss other than post infectious or idiopathic
Prior sinus, skull base or brain surgery
Cognitive or psychiatric dysfunction
Head injury
Patients having nasal mass
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in Olfaction test scores (Threshold score, <br/ ><br>identification score and composite score) post treatment <br/ ><br>Timepoint: At the end of 3 months <br/ ><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in Visual Analogue Score and Self Administered Odor Questionaire scores post treatmentTimepoint: two and a half years