None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Will bathing in a geothermal water reduce skin rashes due to psoriasis? People will be recruited who still have psoriatic skin rash despite other treatments. Participants will be randomly selected to receive either the intervention schedule or the control schedule first. The intervention and the control schedules are to bathe at QE Health at intervals over 20 days and we assess the rash at each visit using PASI scoring for size, redness and scaling and ask how the rash has been. Assessments include PASI scoring. Plus a questionnaire, photographs of the rash and vital signs are recorded at the first and last visits of each schedule. Participants crossover and do both schedules one after the other
Interventions
Bathing in a natural geothermal water : eight twenty minute baths every 2 -3 days over 20 days. An excel speadsheet lists the schedule for each participant , when attendance is due, non attendance, contact deatils etc . A folder contains a section for each partricipant including, consent, baseline recordings, questionnaire and PASI forms to be written on at each treatment and at two followup visits with no treatment. Questionaire and vital signs at the final visit. Wash Out period 14 days
Sponsors
QE Health
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Crossover
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 90 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Documented proof of diagnosis of Psoriasis, and have active psoriatic skin condition Able to access bath used for treatment, able to attend treatments as scheduled and understands the study procedures and risks involved, and voluntarily agrees to participate by giving written informed consent
Exclusion criteria
Currently participating, or has participated, in a research study when treatment occurred within the last 3 months Has skin condition other than psoriasis Has broken skin (open cracks in psoriatic lesions are not an exclusion). Has a significant medical condition or history which may interfere with full participation in the study.
Outcome results
None listed