NCT01477502

Clinical Value of Homeopathic Prophylaxis of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections in Persons With Spinal Cord Injury

Clinical Value of Homeopathic Assessment and Treatment for Prophylaxis of Recurrent Urinary Tract Infections in Persons With Spinal Cord Injury

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 46 (actual)
• Sponsor: Swiss Paraplegic Research, Nottwil · Network
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 90 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

recurrent symptomatic urinary tracts infections (UTI) in persons with spinal cord injury are a frequent problem, leading to significant morbidity and to a decreased quality of life. * until today, there is no effective prophylaxis for UTI for patients with spinal cord injury. * homeopathy has been shown to be an effective treatment option in several chronic diseases * study hypothesis: the addition of homeopathic assessment and treatment to a standard prevention strategy for recurrent UTI will significantly reduce the number of symptomatic UTI per year in this group of patients compared to standard prevention alone

Conditions

• Symptomatic Urinary Tract Infection
• Spinal Cord Injury

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	individual homeopathic treatment	participants are diagnosed by a trained homeopath and receive individualized homeopathic treatment in addition to standard UTI prophylaxis
OTHER	standard treatment without homeopathy	participants receive standard UTI prophylaxis

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-11-01
• Primary completion: 2016-08-01
• Completion: 2016-10-01
• First posted: 2011-11-22
• Last updated: 2024-02-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland