Quality of Life in Juvenile Patients With Uveitis

The Impact of Uveitis on Health-related Quality of Life in Adolescents

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01495767

Enrollment

Registered

2011-12-20

Start date

2006-01-31

Completion date

2009-07-31

Last updated

2011-12-23

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Conditions

Uveitis

Keywords

childhood uveitis, health-related quality of life, gender

Brief summary

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.

Interventions

OTHERFilling in a psychometric questionnaire

Juvenile patients attending the uveitis are asked to fill in a psychometric questionnaire

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

11 Years to 18 Years

Healthy volunteers

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

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Quality of life as assessed with the Inventory for Assessing the Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents	One day	psychometric inventory

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Quality of life as assessed with the Children Quality of Life Questionnaire	One day	psychometric inventory

Countries

Austria

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026