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NCT Number: NCT01072253

Quality of Life of Eye Amputated Patients in Denmark

The purpose of this study is to evaluate eye amputated patients health related quality of life, perceived stress, self-rated health, labour marked participation and socio-economic position.

The investigators hypothesis is that quality of life, perceived stress and self- rated health of many eye amputated patients are drastically changed. Eye amputation has a marked negative influence on labour marked participation and socio-economic position of the patients.

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Key information

Conditions

Eye Cancer Eye Diseases Eye Neoplasms Neoplasms Neoplasms by Site Painful Blind Eye Panophthalmia Traumas Wounds and Injuries

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Department of Neuroscience and pharmacology, section of eye pathology

Copenhagen, Seland, DK- 2200, Denmark

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Inclusion criteria were operation for evisceration, enucleation, orbital exenteration or secondary implantation of an orbital implant during the period 1996-2003. 267 patients were in 2005 invited to a clinical investigation and of those 173 accepted.
  • Included in this study were patients who came to the clinical investigation, who accepted to receive questionnaires and were alive in 2008.

Exclusion criteria

  • Dead
  • Below 18 years
  • Left the country
  • Living at Greenland or the Faeroe Islands

Treatment and study plan

eye amputation

Procedure

Primary outcomes

  1. Health related quality of life

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Copenhagen

Other

Collaborators

  • The Danish Eye Research foundation
  • Velux Fonden

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2008
Primary completion
2008
First posted
Feb 22, 2010
Registry last updated
Feb 22, 2010

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