Quality of Life in Juvenile Patients With Uveitis
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01495767 |
Recruitment Status
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Completed
First Posted
: December 20, 2011
Last Update Posted
: December 23, 2011
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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.
Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment |
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Uveitis | Other: Filling in a psychometric questionnaire |
Study Type : | Observational |
Actual Enrollment : | 37 participants |
Observational Model: | Cohort |
Official Title: | The Impact of Uveitis on Health-related Quality of Life in Adolescents |
Study Start Date : | January 2006 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | July 2009 |
Group/Cohort | Intervention/treatment |
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females, males
females: patients of female sex males: patients of male sex
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Other: Filling in a psychometric questionnaire
Juvenile patients attending the uveitis are asked to fill in a psychometric questionnaire
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- Quality of life as assessed with the "Inventory for Assessing the Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents" [ Time Frame: One day ]psychometric inventory
- Quality of life as assessed with the "Children Quality of Life Questionnaire" [ Time Frame: One day ]psychometric inventory

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 11 Years to 18 Years (Child, Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Sampling Method: | Non-Probability Sample |
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

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01495767
Austria | |
Medical University of Vienna | |
Vienna, Austria, 1090 |
Principal Investigator: | Saskia M Maca, MD | Hospital Hietzing, Vienna + Medical University of Vienna, Vienna |
Responsible Party: | Saskia M Maca, MD, principal investigator, Hospital Hietzing |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01495767 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
MAC205 |
First Posted: | December 20, 2011 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | December 23, 2011 |
Last Verified: | December 2011 |
Keywords provided by Saskia M Maca, Hospital Hietzing:
childhood uveitis health-related quality of life gender |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Uveitis Uveal Diseases Eye Diseases |