Lichen Sclerosus
Conditions
Keywords
Treatment, Quality of Life, Sexology, Women
Brief summary
A randomised controlled trial of Lichen Sclerosus in a period of six months measuring Quality of Life and sexuality among women with Lichen Sclerosus.
Detailed description
The patients are randomized to an intervention Group and a control Group. The intervention gets 6-8 visits with clinical sexologist and the control Group is having the usual care.
Interventions
OTHERStandard care and sexological counseling
6-8 sexological consultants in a period of six months
Sponsors
Regionshospital Nordjylland
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Intervention model description
Randomized controlled trial
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patients diagnosed with Lichen Sclerosus * Age over 18 years
Exclusion criteria
* Patients who does not understand or speak Danish * Patients with a psychiatric diagnosis and can not follow the course
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Quality of Life in women with Lichen Sclerosus | Six months | Change in EuroQol five dimension (EQ-5D) score. The descriptive system comprises 5 dimensions (mobili-ty, self care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, anxiety/depression). However, each dimension has 5 levels: no problems, slight problems, moderate problems, severe problems, and extreme problems. The answers given to EQ-5D permit to find 243 unique health states or can be converted into EQ-5D index an utility scores anchored at 0 for death and 1 for perfect health. |
Countries
Denmark
Outcome results
None listed