TY - JOUR T1 - Home interventions and light therapy for the treatment of vitiligo (HI-Light Vitiligo Trial): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial JF - BMJ Open JO - BMJ Open DO - 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018649 VL - 8 IS - 4 SP - e018649 AU - Rachel H Haines AU - Kim S Thomas AU - Alan A Montgomery AU - Jane C Ravenscroft AU - Perways Akram AU - Joanne R Chalmers AU - Diane Whitham AU - Lelia Duley AU - Viktoria Eleftheriadou AU - Garry Meakin AU - Eleanor J Mitchell AU - Jennifer White AU - Andy Rogers AU - Tracey Sach AU - Miriam Santer AU - Wei Tan AU - Trish Hepburn AU - Hywel C Williams AU - Jonathan Batchelor Y1 - 2018/04/01 UR - http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/4/e018649.abstract N2 - Introduction Vitiligo is a condition resulting in white patches on the skin. People with vitiligo can suffer from low self-esteem, psychological disturbance and diminished quality of life. Vitiligo is often poorly managed, partly due to lack of high-quality evidence to inform clinical care. We describe here a large, independent, randomised controlled trial (RCT) assessing the comparative effectiveness of potent topical corticosteroid, home-based hand-held narrowband ultraviolet B-light (NB-UVB) or combination of the two, for the management of vitiligo.Methods and analysis The HI-Light Vitiligo Trial is a multicentre, three-arm, parallel group, pragmatic, placebo-controlled RCT. 516 adults and children with actively spreading, but limited, vitiligo are randomised (1:1:1) to one of three groups: mometasone furoate 0.1% ointment plus dummy NB-UVB light, vehicle ointment plus NB-UVB light or mometasone furoate 0.1% ointment plus NB-UVB light. Treatment of up to three patches of vitiligo is continued for up to 9 months with clinic visits at baseline, 3, 6 and 9 months and four post-treatment questionnaires.The HI-Light Vitiligo Trial assesses outcomes included in the vitiligo core outcome set and places emphasis on participants’ views of treatment success. The primary outcome is proportion of participants achieving treatment success (patient-rated Vitiligo Noticeability Scale) for a target patch of vitiligo at 9 months with further independent blinded assessment using digital images of the target lesion before and after treatment. Secondary outcomes include time to onset of treatment response, treatment success by body region, percentage repigmentation, quality of life, time-burden of treatment, maintenance of response, safety and within-trial cost-effectiveness.Ethics and dissemination Approvals were granted by East Midlands—Derby Research Ethics Committee (14/EM/1173) and the MHRA (EudraCT 2014-003473-42). The trial was registered 8 January 2015 ISRCTN (17160087). Results will be published in full as open access in the NIHR Journal library and elsewhere.Trial registration number ISRCTN17160087. ER -