The Effects of Ventilation Tubes Versus no Ventilation Tubes for Recurrent Acute Otitis Media or Chronic Otitis Media With Effusion in 9 to 36 Month Old Greenlandic Children - a Randomised Clinical Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 终止
- 入组人数
- 31
- 试验地点
- 6
- 主要终点
- Number of visits to health clinic
研究概览
简要总结
The prevalence of otitis media among Greenlandic children is one of the highest in the world and twenty per cent of schoolchildren have impaired hearing in the frequencies for normal speech. Yet, there are no national guidelines to ensure prevention and treatment of recurrent acute otitis media and chronic otitis media with effusion and impaired hearing in Greenlandic children. International studies from the developed part of the world have shown that otitis prone children may benefit from tubulation of the tympanic membrane. However, it is unknown if these results can be applied to Greenlandic children.
This PhD project will conduct a randomised controlled trial comparing tubulation of the tympanic membrane, in Greenlandic children aged 9-36 months with recurrent acute otitis media and/or chronic otitis media with effusion, to conservative treatment. The children will be followed for two years. Outcome measures will include number of visits to health clinics, number of tympanic membrane perforations, number of episodes with acute otitis media according to medical records, Quality of life, measured by the validated questionnaires OM6 and Caregiver Impact Questionnaire, number of episodes where per oral or intravenous antibiotics have been administered according to medical records and serious adverse events
The trial will be conducted in collaboration with the Greenlandic health authorities and Copenhagen Trial Unit.
With this trial the investigators hope to decrease the number of episodes with acute otitis media, the number of Greenlandic children with chronic perforations of the tympanic membrane and hearing impairment and increase quality of life.
The results will add important knowledge to the effect of ventilation tube treatment also in an international aspect. There are to date only less than a handful of high quality studies concerning this issue on an international basis. The study will be among the first addressing this problem among populations with high risk of otitis media and is also of interest to other indigenous populations and the developing part of the world.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 9 Months 至 36 Months（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Children aged 9-36 months.
- •Children with at least one Greenlandic born parent with at least one Greenlandic born parent
- •American Society of Anaesthesiologists physical status classification class 1 and 2
- •B- or C2 - type curve measured by tympanometry at two visits three-four months apart or three episodes of acute otitis media in six months according to medical records or four episodes of acute otitis media in 12 months according to medical records
- •Signed informed consent, signed by the legal guardian
排除标准
- •Children with orofacial cleft, Downs syndrome or known generalised immune deficiency
- •American Society of Anaesthesiologists physical status classification class >
- •Lack of signed informed consent, signed by the legal guardian.
- •Description of experimental and control intervention Experimental intervention: The intervention group will be treated with bilateral Donaldson ventilation tubes administered in general anaesthesia Control intervention: The control intervention is based on the current practice in Greenland, which includes systemic antibiotic treatment as well as aural toilette and topical antibiotics. Ventilation tube insertion during the study period is not accepted in the control group.
- •Children in the intervention group as well as the control group will be seen once a year by the visiting ear-nose-and throat (ENT)-specialist and have a final consultation after at least two years after randomisation.
研究组 & 干预措施
Ventilation tube treatment
Ventilation tube insertion in the tympanic membrane
干预措施: Ventilation tube treatment (Device)
Conservative treatment
Conventional treatment
结局指标
主要结局
Number of visits to health clinic
时间窗: Two years after randomisation
Assessed by investigating medical records.
次要结局
- Number of episodes of acute otitis media(Two years after randomisation)
- Quality of life(Assessed at baseline, three months after randomisation, one year after randomisation, and at the end of the trial two years after randomisation)
- Number of episodes where per oral or intravenous antibiotics have been administered(Two years after randomisation)
- Proportion of children with uni- or bilateral tympanic membrane perforations(Two years after randomisation)
研究者
Malene Nøhr Demant
MD, PhD-student
Zealand University Hospital