Background: Uyghur medicine is an important part of Chinese ethnic medicine, and it has a long history of treating vitiligo. Several clinical trials have explored the efficacy of Uyghur medicine in the treatment of vitiligo, however, these studies had problems with unreasonable selection of outcome measures. While consensus on vitiligo COS has been reached in 2015, some Uyghur-specific symptoms or signs, like the temperature and moisture of skin, the color of sclera, tongue and pulse situation, did not be fully expressed in the current COS for vitiligo. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a Uyghur-specific COS for vitiligo.
Objective: This study is to develop a COS specially for Uyghur medicine based on the current vitiligo core outcome domains, that is, to add on a Uyghur-specific module to the existing COS for vitiligo.
ContributorsThe principal investigator is Qian Huang, and the supervisors are Shao-nan Liu and Xin-feng Guo. They all come from the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine.
Disease Category: Skin
Disease Name: Vitiligo
Age Range: 18 - 80
Sex: Either
Nature of Intervention: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapy
- Clinical experts
- Methodologists
- Patient/ support group representatives
- COS for clinical trials or clinical research
- Delphi process
- Literature review
- Survey
A literature review on Uyghur medicine clinical trials as well as a survey involving vitiligo patients and Uyghur practitioners will be conducted to collect Uyghur-specific symptoms or signs. Then we will carry out a two-round Delphi process to achieve an agreement on the Uyghur-specific outcomes, which will be an add-on module to the existing COS for vitiligo.