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Quality of LifeNCT03761199

Assessment of the Impact of Whole Body Cryostimulation on Skin Physiological Indicators

A study testing whole body cryostimulation in people with Quality of Life and Atopic Dermatitis, run by University School of Physical Education, Krakow, Poland at 1 site in Poland.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

The aim of the planned study will be to evaluate the effect of repeated cryostimulation treatments on immunological, morphological, and biochemical indicators of the peripheral blood of patients with atopic dermatitis (AD). Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 45 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
Conditions the study is for
Quality of Life, Atopic Dermatitis
What is being tested?
whole body cryostimulation
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
24 participants
Where
1 sitePoland
Study dates
26 Nov 2018to 13 Nov 2019
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 to 45 years
  • All sexes
  • Healthy volunteers accepted
  • Adult

Who may be able to join

  • informed consent for research;
  • equal age and above 18 years of age;
  • no contraindications to cryostimulation procedures;
  • clinically diagnosed atopic dermatitis (people with AD);

Who cannot join

  • lack of informed consent for research
  • patients with AD in treatment by phototherapy, cyclosporin A, oral corticosteroids, which are topical calcineurin inhibitors such as pimecrolimus and tacrolimus and patients during or after immunotherapy,
  • children and adolescents under 18 years of age,
  • breast-feeding mothers and pregnant,
  • patients with inflammatory diseases, infectious, autoimmune and cancer

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

Poland1 site
  • Magdalena Kępińska

    Krakow, 31-589

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About this study

Official title: The Influence of Cryostimulation on Selected Mediators of Inflammation and on the Level of Lubrication, Moisture and pH of the Skin of Patients With Atopic Dermatitis (AD)

The aim of the planned study will be to evaluate the effect of repeated cryostimulation treatments on immunological, morphological, and biochemical indicators of the peripheral blood of patients with atopic dermatitis (AD). The aim of the study will be also to measure the oiling, hydration and pH of the skin of patients with AD after a series of treatments in a cryogenic chamber.

Each participant will complete a Brief Questionnaire on Quality of Life, Life Satisfaction Index, Self Evaluation Questionnare and DERMATOLOGY LIFE QUALITY INDEX (before and after the WBC procedures).

Read the detailed description

In this research project will be performed 15 treatments in cryogenic chamber (1 once a day, every day, with a break on Saturdays and Sundays). Cryostimulation will be conducted in a cryochamber located in the Małopolska Cryotherapy Centre in Kraków, Poland (Polish: Małopolskie Centrum Krioterapii). The whole body cryostimulation (WBC) exposure will be administered in a special temperature-controlled unit which consists of two rooms (-60° and -120°C). Persons with any contraindications (both with AD and healthy) for whole body cryostimulation will be excluded from the study. Patients with AD in treatment by phototherapy, cyclosporin A, oral corticosteroids, which are topical calcineurin inhibitors such as pimecrolimus and tacrolimus and patients during or after immunotherapy, children and adolescents under 18 years of age, breast-feeding mothers and pregnant, patients with inflammatory diseases, infectious, autoimmune and cancer will be excluded from research.

The participants will be informed about how they should breathe and move in the cryochamber. Entry to the cryochamber will be preceded by a 30s acclimatization period in the vestibule at a temperature of -60° C, after which the subjects will go directly to the proper chamber (-120° C) for three minutes. During the procedure, all participants will be clothed in shorts, wool socks, gloves and hats or headbands for protection from frostbite, as well as wooden clogs. Additionally, participants will wear surgical masks with a layer of gauze over the mouth and nose for protection. Throughout the session, the participants will be under direct supervision of qualified doctor.

Being tested
whole body cryostimulation
Keywords
AD patients, whole body cryostimulation
Medical subject headings
Dermatitis, Atopic

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • whole body cryostimulationOther

    In this research project will be performed 15 treatments in cryogenic chamber (1 once a day, every day, with a break on Saturdays and Sundays). Cryostimulation will be conducted in a cryochamber located in the Małopolska Cryotherapy Centre in Kraków, Poland (Polish: Małopolskie Centrum Krioterapii). The whole body cryostimulation (WBC) exposure will be administered in a special temperature-controlled unit which consists of two rooms (-60° and -120°C). Throughout the session, the participants will be under direct supervision of qualified doctor.

Study groups in NCT03761199
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
a group of patients with ADExperimental15 people with clinically diagnosed atopic dermatitis (AD), established on the basis of criteria Hanifin and Rajka
Receives: Other: whole body cryostimulation
control groupOther15 healthy persons which will form the control group
Receives: Other: whole body cryostimulation

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. examination of moisturizing of the skin of each patient (AD group)

    using special device to the skin test (Courage - Khazaka Electronic, Köln), non-invasive skin tests investigating. Each patient will have a measurement on the inside of the forearm. The measuring probes will be applied directly to the skin. The result will be read on the measuring device.

    Measured: 5 minutes before 1st treatment of WBC

  2. examination of moisturizing of the skin of each patient (control group)

    using special device to the skin test (Courage - Khazaka Electronic, Köln), non-invasive skin tests investigating. Each patient will have a measurement on the inside of the forearm. The measuring probes will be applied directly to the skin. The result will be read on the measuring device.

    Measured: 5 minutes before 1st treatment of WBC

  3. examination of greasing of the skin of each patient (AD group)

    using special device to the skin test (Courage - Khazaka Electronic, Köln), non-invasive skin tests investigating. Each patient will have a measurement on the inside of the forearm. The measuring probes will be applied directly to the skin. The result will be read on the measuring device.

    Measured: 5 minutes before 1st treatment of WBC

  4. examination of greasing of the skin of each patient (control group)

    using special device to the skin test (Courage - Khazaka Electronic, Köln), non-invasive skin tests investigating. Each patient will have a measurement on the inside of the forearm. The measuring probes will be applied directly to the skin. The result will be read on the measuring device.

    Measured: 5 minutes before 1st treatment of WBC

  5. examination of the pH level of the skin of each patient (AD group)

    using special device to the skin test (Courage - Khazaka Electronic, Köln), non-invasive skin tests investigating. Each patient will have a measurement on the inside of the forearm. The measuring probes will be applied directly to the skin. The result will be read on the measuring device.

    Measured: 5 minutes before 1st treatment of WBC

  6. examination of the pH level of the skin of each patient (control group)

    using special device to the skin test (Courage - Khazaka Electronic, Köln), non-invasive skin tests investigating. Each patient will have a measurement on the inside of the forearm. The measuring probes will be applied directly to the skin. The result will be read on the measuring device.

    Measured: 5 minutes before 1st treatment of WBC

  7. examination of moisturizing of the skin of each patient (AD group)

    using special device to the skin test (Courage - Khazaka Electronic, Köln), non-invasive skin tests investigating. Each patient will have a measurement on the inside of the forearm. The measuring probes will be applied directly to the skin. The result will be read on the measuring device.

    Measured: 5 minutes after 15th WBC

  8. examination of moisturizing of the skin of each patient (control group)

    using special device to the skin test (Courage - Khazaka Electronic, Köln), non-invasive skin tests investigating. Each patient will have a measurement on the inside of the forearm. The measuring probes will be applied directly to the skin. The result will be read on the measuring device.

    Measured: 5 minutes after 15th WBC

  9. examination of greasing of the skin of each patient (AD group)

    using special device to the skin test (Courage - Khazaka Electronic, Köln), non-invasive skin tests investigatinhg. Each patient will have a measurement on the inside of the forearm. The measuring probes will be applied directly to the skin. The result will be read on the measuring device.

    Measured: 5 minutes after 15th WBC

  10. examination of greasing of the skin of each patient (control group)

    using special device to the skin test (Courage - Khazaka Electronic, Köln), non-invasive skin tests investigatinhg. Each patient will have a measurement on the inside of the forearm. The measuring probes will be applied directly to the skin. The result will be read on the measuring device.

    Measured: 5 minutes after 15th WBC

  11. examination of pH level of the skin of each patient (AD group)

    using special device to the skin test (Courage - Khazaka Electronic, Köln), non-invasive skin tests investigating. Each patient will have a measurement on the inside of the forearm. The measuring probes will be applied directly to the skin. The result will be read on the measuring device.

    Measured: 5 minutes after 15th WBC

  12. examination of pH level of the skin of each patient (control group)

    using special device to the skin test (Courage - Khazaka Electronic, Köln), non-invasive skin tests investigating. Each patient will have a measurement on the inside of the forearm. The measuring probes will be applied directly to the skin. The result will be read on the measuring device.

    Measured: 5 minutes after 15th WBC

  13. examination of moisturizing of the skin of each patient (AD group)

    using special device to the skin test (Courage - Khazaka Electronic, Köln),non-invasive skin tests investigating. Each subject will have a measurement on the inside of the forearm. The measuring probes will be applied directly to the skin. The result will be read on the measuring device.

    Measured: 3 weeks from completion of treatments in the cryogenic chamber

  14. examination of moisturizing of the skin of each patient (control group)

    using special device to the skin test (Courage - Khazaka Electronic, Köln),non-invasive skin tests investigating. Each subject will have a measurement on the inside of the forearm. The measuring probes will be applied directly to the skin. The result will be read on the measuring device.

    Measured: 3 weeks from completion of treatments in the cryogenic chamber

  15. examination of greasing of the skin of each patient (AD group)

    using special device to the skin test (Courage - Khazaka Electronic, Köln),non-invasive skin tests investigating. Each subject will have a measurement on the inside of the forearm. The measuring probes will be applied directly to the skin. The result will be read on the measuring device.

    Measured: 3 weeks from completion of treatments in the cryogenic chamber

  16. examination of greasing of the skin of each patient (control group)

    using special device to the skin test (Courage - Khazaka Electronic, Köln),non-invasive skin tests investigating. Each subject will have a measurement on the inside of the forearm. The measuring probes will be applied directly to the skin. The result will be read on the measuring device.

    Measured: 3 weeks from completion of treatments in the cryogenic chamber

  17. examination of pH level of the skin of each patient (AD group)

    using special device to the skin test (Courage - Khazaka Electronic, Köln),non-invasive skin tests investigating. Each subject will have a measurement on the inside of the forearm. The measuring probes will be applied directly to the skin. The result will be read on the measuring device.

    Measured: 3 weeks from completion of treatments in the cryogenic chamber

  18. examination of pH level of the skin of each patient (control group)

    using special device to the skin test (Courage - Khazaka Electronic, Köln),non-invasive skin tests investigating. Each subject will have a measurement on the inside of the forearm. The measuring probes will be applied directly to the skin. The result will be read on the measuring device.

    Measured: 3 weeks from completion of treatments in the cryogenic chamber

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted3 Dec 2018
  2. Study start26 Nov 2018
  3. Primary completion13 Nov 2019
  4. Study completion13 Nov 2019

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Basic science
Allocation
Non-randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
24 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT03761199
Sponsor's protocol ID
USPEKrakow
Status last verified
Nov 2019
First submitted
6 Nov 2018
Last updated
2 Apr 2021
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing whole body cryostimulation in people with Quality of Life and Atopic Dermatitis, run by University School of Physical Education, Krakow, Poland at 1 site in Poland.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 4 inclusion and 5 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 2 Apr 2021. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in Poland. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

examination of moisturizing of the skin of each patient (AD group) (time frame: 5 minutes before 1st treatment of WBC). The study lists 18 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 2 Apr 2021.

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