Clinical trial NCT01176877: Assessing and Improving Patient Knowledge About Keloid Scars (Keloids)
Official title: Assessing and Improving Patient Knowledge About Keloids
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Keloid Scar
Lead sponsor: Northwestern University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2010-08-06
Enrollment: 40
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is:

* to identify how knowledge about keloid scars and self-treatments differs between patients who use the Internet as a source of information and patients who do not
* to determine if patients who are at a high risk of developing additional keloid scars are more or less likely to change their behavior based on an educational information talk about keloid scar prevention

Detailed description: Keloids scars differ from other scar types in that they grow beyond the borders of the injury that caused them. Patients with darker pigmented skin are more likely to develop keloids, and blacks are especially predisposed to keloid formation. Treatment options for keloids are limited in that new keloids often form at the treated location. The limited efficacy of professional treatment options and the harmless appearance of small keloid scars may lead a patient to try to manage their keloid scars on their own. One source of information that patients may turn to for self-treatment advice is the Internet.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Subjects with a clinical diagnosis of keloid scarring
* Subjects over the age of 18

Exclusion Criteria:

* That which does not fit the inclusion criteria

Primary outcomes:
measure: To Assess the Impact of an Educational Lecture on Knowledge About Keloid Scars by Comparing Mean Scores Between Knowledge Assessment Questionnaires Administered Before an Educational Lecture and Immediately After an Educational Lecture
timeFrame: immediately before and after a 5 minute educational lecture
Secondary outcomes:
measure: To Assess the Impact of an Educational Lecture on Long-term Knowledge Retention About Keloid Scars by Comparing Mean Scores Between Knowledge Assessment Questionnaires Administered Before an Educational Lecture and 3 Months After an Educational Lecture
timeFrame: before and 3 months after a 5 minute educational lecture
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Chicago
country: United States
facility: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology
state: Illinois
Study officials:
affiliation: Northwestern University
name: Roopal V Kundu, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
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