Relationship of various diseases with daily bathing at home and hot spa bathing by middle-aged and elderly ambulatory patients: a Japanese multicenter cross-sectional study

Relationship of various diseases with daily bathing at home and hot spa bathing by middle-aged and elderly ambulatory patients: a Japanese multicenter cross-sectional study - Relationship between bathing and various diseases

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

JPRN

Registry ID

JPRN-UMIN000033018

Enrollment

600

Registered

2018-06-16

Start date

2018-10-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2026-06-29

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Conditions

Various diseases

Interventions

None listed

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: The participants in this study are ambulatory patients aged 60-85 years are being treated by certified medical doctors of the Japanese Society Balneology, Climatology and Physical Medicine during October 1-7, 2018.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Nothing.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Occurrence of underlying diseases. We identified the underlying diseases based on two sources. First was the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11). The following chapters in ICD-11 were referenced: Chapter 2, Neoplasms; Chapter 4, Diseases of the blood or blood-forming organs; Chapter 5, Endocrine, nutrition, or metabolic diseases; Chapter 6, Mental, behavioural or neurodevelopmental disorders; Chapter 8, Diseases of the nervous system; Chapter 11, Diseases of the circulatory system; Chapter 12, Diseases of the respiratory system; Chapter 13, Diseases of the digestive system; Chapter 14, Diseases of the skin; and Chapter 15, Diseases of the musculoskeletal system or connective tissue. The second source was a book entitled Balneology, Climatology and Physical Medicine (in Japanese) published by the Japanese Society of Balneology, Climatology and Physical Medicine in 2014. From this source, we adopted the section "Medical treatment for specific diseases".	—

Measure

Time frame

Occurrence of underlying diseases. We identified the underlying diseases based on two sources. First was the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-11). The following chapters in ICD-11 were referenced: Chapter 2, Neoplasms; Chapter 4, Diseases of the blood or blood-forming organs; Chapter 5, Endocrine, nutrition, or metabolic diseases; Chapter 6, Mental, behavioural or neurodevelopmental disorders; Chapter 8, Diseases of the nervous system; Chapter 11, Diseases of the circulatory system; Chapter 12, Diseases of the respiratory system; Chapter 13, Diseases of the digestive system; Chapter 14, Diseases of the skin; and Chapter 15, Diseases of the musculoskeletal system or connective tissue. The second source was a book entitled Balneology, Climatology and Physical Medicine (in Japanese) published by the Japanese Society of Balneology, Climatology and Physical Medicine in 2014. From this source, we adopted the section "Medical treatment for specific diseases".

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Countries

Japan

Contacts

Public ContactTakamitsu Uchiyama

Tokyo University of Agriculture Research Institute

uchiyama@nodai.ac.jp03-5477-2532

Outcome results