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Home UVB Phototherapy for Psoriasis: Effectiveness, Quality of Life and Cost-Effectiveness

NCT00150930 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2006-11-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

UVB phototherapy is a commonly used treatment for patients with psoriasis. Generally it is performed in the outpatient department of the hospital. The UVB irradiation itself will normally take only a few minutes, but to receive the irradiation patients have to travel to the outpatient department during working hours 2 or 3 times a week. In general it is a relatively time-consuming treatment.

Objective of this study is to assess whether UVB treatment administered in the home is as equally effective as the standard outpatient UVB phototherapy. Quality of life and cost-effectiveness are also studied.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

narrowband UVB phototherapy at home

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • ZonMw: The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development

    collaborator OTHER

  • UMC Utrecht

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Vigfús Sigurdsson, MD, PhD · UMC Utrecht

  • Mayke BG Koek, MD, M.Sc. · UMC Utrecht

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2002-10-31
Completion
2005-03-31

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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Diseases

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