scabies, mite, Sarcoptes scabiei, parasitic mite
Conditions
Interventions
Patients: 4 online questionnaires, which are sent at week 0, week 4, week 8 and week 12. 
Contacts: 2 online questionnaires, which are sent at week 0 and week 6. Questionnaires are validated PROMIS questionnaires supplemented with questions about the course of complaints and questions to e
Sponsors
GGD Amsterdam
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 64 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Dutch-speaking outpatients aged 18 up to and including 30 years old who were diagnosed with common scabies at the scabies clinic through clinical diagnosis and/or dermatoscopy, microscopy and/or PCR, starting a treatment with topical permethrin and/or oral ivermectin following their visit to the scabies clinic. To be eligible for an appointment at the scabies clinic patients need at least one previous consultation with a health professional for scabies and had undergone at least one (prescribed) treatment for scabies before. Contacts who are eligible for preventive treatment as described in the scabies guidelines by the National Coordination of Infectious Disease Control (LCI), and start one following their contacts’ diagnosis, were also included in the study, provided that they have been assessed and informed by the source- and contacttracing team of the GGD Amsterdam.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients in whom no scabies was found during their consultation at the scabies clinic were excluded from participation in the study.Patients found positive on scabies but visited the clinic already before inclusionperiod of the research were excluded from study.Contacts that were eligible for preventive treatment but were not assessed by the GGD Amsterdam for various reasons, were excluded from participation in the study.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Change in PROMIS T-scores between week 12 and week 0 on different domains of Promis-29 V2.1 | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Patients' satisfaction score on 5-point Likert schalePatients' treatment adherence score on 5 point Likert schaleProportion of respondents indicating that received information was clear and actionable | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Contacts
Public ContactI Valks
GGD Amsterdam
Outcome results
None listed