Assessing and Improving Patient Knowledge About Keloid Scars (Keloids)

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Conditions studied: Keloid Scar

In brief

The purpose of this study is: * to identify how knowledge about keloid scars and self-treatments differs between patients who use the Internet as a source of information and patients who do not * to determine if patients who are at a high risk of developing additional keloid scars are more or less likely to change their behavior based on an educational information talk about keloid scar prevention

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01176877

Run by

Northwestern University

People needed

40

Starts

2010-08-01

Expected to finish

2011-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-01-03

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Subjects with a clinical diagnosis of keloid scarring
• Subjects over the age of 18

You may not qualify if…

• That which does not fit the inclusion criteria

Where it is running

• Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Department of Dermatology — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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