NCT00427622

Skin Conduction Device for Measuring Hot Flashes in Postmenopausal Women With Hot Flashes

A Trial to Examine the Accuracy of an Ambulatory Sternal Skin Conductance Recording Tool to Measure Hot Flashes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 25 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Mayo Clinic · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

RATIONALE: Measuring how often hot flashes occur in postmenopausal women may be done by using a skin conduction device or by using a diary. PURPOSE: This clinical trial is comparing a skin conduction device with a hot flash diary as a way of measuring hot flashes in postmenopausal women with hot flashes.

Detailed description

OBJECTIVES: * Correlate hot flash frequency, as measured by an ambulatory sternal skin conductance measuring and recording tool, with patient-recorded hot flash frequency using a hot flash diary in postmenopausal women with hot flashes. * Determine the comfort, obtrusiveness, and feasibility of using the skin conductance recording tool for measuring hot flashes when worn daily for five weeks in these patients. OUTLINE: Patients wear an ambulatory sternal skin conductance hot flash device continuously for 5 weeks. Patients complete hot flash diaries once daily for 5 weeks. Patients also complete the Comfort, Bother, and Weight Questionnaire at the end of week 5. PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 25 patients will be accrued for this study.

Conditions

• Hot Flashes

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	physiologic testing

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-05-01
• Primary completion: 2007-06-01
• First posted: 2007-01-29
• Last updated: 2014-04-09

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States