NCT05970458

Stoma Related Complications and Quality of Life Assessments Ethiopia and Sweden

Stoma Related Complications and Quality of Life Assessment: a Cross-sectional Study With Patients From Ethiopia and Sweden

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 66 (actual)
• Sponsor: Karolinska Institutet · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

Cross-sectional comparative study of general and stoma-specific quality of life in patients with stoma in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, and Stockholm, Sweden.

Detailed description

Objective: To evaluate the quality of life for patients with ostomy in Ethiopia and Sweden using a general and a specific assessment tool. Design: Comparative descriptive cross-sectional study. Setting: Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital (TASH), Addis Abeba and South General Hospital, Stockholm. Participants/Exposure: Patients with a permanent ostomy visiting the stoma center in Addis Abeba, patients waiting for ostomy reversal at TASH, and patients visiting the stoma clinic at South General Hospital. Main outcomes and measure: Quality of life and stoma specific quality of life: EQ5D-5L and Stoma QoL.

Conditions

• Stoma Colostomy
• Stoma Ileostomy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Quality of life assessment	EQ5D-5L and Stoma QoL

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-10-01
• Primary completion: 2023-01-30
• Completion: 2023-01-30
• First posted: 2023-08-01
• Last updated: 2023-08-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Ethiopia