Skin care education and individual counselling versus treatment as usual in healthcare workers with hand eczema: randomised clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the effect of a secondary prevention programme with education on skin care and individual counselling versus treatment as usual in healthcare workers with hand eczema.

Design

Randomised, observer blinded parallel group superiority clinical trial.

Setting

Three hospitals in Denmark.

Participants

255 healthcare workers with self reported hand eczema within the past year randomised centrally and stratified by profession, severity of eczema, and hospital. 123 were allocated to the intervention group and 132 to the control group.

Interventions

Education in skin care and individual counselling based on patch and prick testing and assessment of work and domestic related exposures. The control was treatment as usual.

Main outcome measure

SUBMITTER: Ibler KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3520547 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature