NCT04510961

Paraffin Bath Therapy for Chronic Hand Eczema

Beneficial Effects of Paraffin Bath Therapy as Additional Treatment of Chronic Hand Eczema: A Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Objective: Chronic Hand eczema (CHE) is a common inflammatory skin disease has a major medical psychological and socio-economic implications that affect quality of life (QoL)and work ability. This study, the first randomized controlled trial that will be conducted to evaluate the effect of paraffin bath therapy (PBT) in the treatment of CHE.

Detailed description

Design: The study design is a randomized controlled trial with measures at pre-and post-intervention. Subjects: Sixty patients with moderate to severe Chronic Hand eczema (CHE) will participate in the study. They will be classified randomly into two groups of equal number; paraffin group and the control group. Interventions: Paraffin group will receive Paraffin bath therapy for 5 days per week for 12 weeks in addition to routine skin care program while the control group will receive routine skin care program. Outcome Measures: Objective SCORing Atopic Dermatitis, subjective item score and dermatology life quality index (DLQI) will be assessed before, at 6th week and at 12th week of treatment.

Conditions

• Eczema

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Paraffin baths therapy	Patients in treatment group will receive paraffin wax baths for five days per week for 12 weeks. Prepare the paraffin device and blocks of paraffin wax. Put the paraffin wax blocks inside the tank and set the thermostat 35 to 40◦C. Melting paraffin was taken from 90 to 120 minutes. Adjust the suitable temperature for each patient before immersion of patient's hand. Submerge patient's hand completely for three to four seconds then withdraw it

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-10
• Primary completion: 2019-11-12
• Completion: 2020-01-25
• First posted: 2020-08-12
• Last updated: 2020-08-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Saudi Arabia