NCT03462329

Patient's Pretreatment Expectations About Post-Lyme Symptoms

Impact of Patient's Pretreatment Expectations on Treatment Outcome of Early Lyme Borreliosis

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Medical Centre Ljubljana · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators will focus on pretreatment expectations of patients with early Lyme disease manifested as erythema migrans with the aim of assessing the association between pretreatment expectations quantified with a questionnaire and treatment outcome quantified with the presence of post-Lyme symptoms. Furthermore, the investigators will compare the prevalence of nonspecific symptoms among patients and among age-matched controls without a history of Lyme borreliosis.

Conditions

• Erythema Migrans

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Antibiotics (preferentially oral doxycycline 100 mg bid)	Patients will be treated with antibiotics for Lyme disease.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-06-01
• Primary completion: 2027-12-01
• Completion: 2027-12-01
• First posted: 2018-03-12
• Last updated: 2025-03-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Slovenia