Quality of Life of Eye Amputated Patients in Denmark

University of Copenhagen152 enrolled

Overview

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.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

152

Conditions

Eye Cancer Painful Blind Eye Panophthalmia Traumas

Interventions

eye amputationPROCEDURE

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Locations (1)

Department of Neuroscience and pharmacology, section of eye pathology

Copenhagen, Seland, Denmark

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Health related quality of life

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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