NCT01887548

Personality Traits and Its Impact on Quality of Life and Clinical Outcome Evaluation in Crohn's Patients

Personality Traits and Its Impact on Quality of Life and Clinical Outcome Evaluation in Patients With Crohn's Disease

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: Jinling Hospital, China · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Quality of life is recommended as one of essential parameters to evaluate treatment effect and clinical outcome in patients with Crohn's disease (CD). Recent studies reported that several disease-unrelated variables may affect quality of life in CD patients. This study is dedicated to investigate the influence of various personality traits on quality of life, and whether or not they should be taken into account when evaluating clinical outcomes in patients with CD.

Detailed description

This is a prospective, single-center study. All enrolled patients are divided into 2 groups: * Group 1: quiescent CD group (CDAI≤150 points) * Group 2: active CD group (CDAI\>150 points) All enrolled patients are required to accomplish the following questionnaires at visit: * Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (IBDQ) * Neuroticism (N) and Lie (L) subscale of the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) * Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) * Buss-Perry Aggression (BPA) questionnaire All questionnaires are translated and validated in Chinese population.

Conditions

• Crohn's Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Personality Traits Questionnaires	Patients are required to fill out several personality traits questionnaires. The following personality traits scores would be collected: IBDQ, IBDQ-Emotional function score, IBDQ-Social function score, IBDQ-Bowel function score, IBDQ-Systemic symptom score, Neuroticism score, Lie (social conformity/desirability) score, Hospital anxiety score, Hospital depression score, Buss-Perry score, PA (physical aggression) score, VA (verbal aggression) score, A (anger) score, H (hostility) score.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-03-01
• Primary completion: 2013-12-01
• Completion: 2013-12-01
• First posted: 2013-06-27
• Last updated: 2013-06-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China