A Study of the Association of Sleep Dysfunction and Burning Mouth Syndrome

Completed

Conditions studied: Burning Mouth Syndrome

In brief

This is a case control study of the association between burning mouth syndrome and sleep dysfunction. Cases will comprise of patients diagnosed with burning mouth syndrome at the UCSF oral medicine clinic. Controls will include patients with leukoplakia, pigmented lesions, traumatic lesions, benign tumors, mucoceles, and pemphigoid matched on age (5 years) and gender to the cases. New patients as well as those presenting for follow-up visits will be eligible. Each case and control subject will be administered the following 4 questionnaires by interview: (1) enrollment questionnaire (2) Sleep scale from the medical outcomes study (MOS), (3) current sleep status scale and (4) a numerical rating scale for measurement of oral symptoms. Cases (BMS patients) will be followed in the clinic or by telephone contact once per month for the following 6 months and questionnaires 1 (question 6 only), 2, 3 and 4 will be administered by interview.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00862576

Run by

University of California, San Francisco

People needed

55

Starts

2006-06-01

Expected to finish

2008-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2009-03-17

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Cases will comprise of patients diagnosed with burning mouth syndrome at the UCSF oral medicine clinic.
• Controls will include patients with leukoplakia, pigmented lesions, traumatic lesions, aphthous ulcers, reticular oral lichen planus, benign tumors, mucoceles, and pemphigoid matched on age (5 years) and gender to the cases.
• New patients as well as those presenting for follow-up visits will be eligible.

You may not qualify if…

• Age below 18 years
• Pregnancy
• Systemic corticosteroid therapy within the previous 2 weeks.

Where it is running

• University of California — San Francisco, California, United States

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