NCT06864377

Ventral Hernia Improvement of Treatment and Life

• Status: Enrolling By Invitation
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 300 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Line Marker · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial called the VITAL study is to learn if surgery has a positive impact on the quality of life in patients with incisional or parastomal hernia. The main questions it aims to answer are: Does surgery alleviate patients from their initial problem? Does new discomfort arise after surgery? Do the symptoms worsen, and does quality of life deteriorate in patients who are not offered surgery? The project will also look at time to surgery and postoperative complications. Researchers will send questionnaires to the patients to answer. Participants will: Answer the baseline questionnaire. Answer the follow-up questionnaires at 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, and 3 years after surgery or after the baseline questionnaire has been completed for those patients being managed conservatively with observation

Conditions

• Incisional Hernia
• Parastomal Hernia
• Ventral Hernia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Quality of life questionnair	The questionnaire used is the Abdominal Hernia Q, which is specific to ventral hernias. Patients will receive the questionnaire at baseline and at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after ventral hernia repair. If treated conservatively, the questionnaire will be administered at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months after completing the baseline questionnaire.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-01-01
• Primary completion: 2026-12-31
• Completion: 2027-10-31
• First posted: 2025-03-07
• Last updated: 2025-03-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark