{"id":3462,"date":"2022-04-15T15:20:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T15:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/?post_type=abstract&p=3462"},"modified":"2022-04-15T15:20:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T15:20:34","slug":"efficacy-of-guava-5-cream-vs-clotrimazole-1-cream-in-the-treatment-of-tinea-corporis-of-patients-seen-at-the-family-medicine-department-of-quezon-city-general-hospital","status":"publish","type":"abstract","link":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/abstract\/efficacy-of-guava-5-cream-vs-clotrimazole-1-cream-in-the-treatment-of-tinea-corporis-of-patients-seen-at-the-family-medicine-department-of-quezon-city-general-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficacy of Guava 5% Cream vs. Clotrimazole 1% Cream in the Treatment of Tinea corporis of Patients Seen at the Family Medicine Department of Quezon City General Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Efficacy of Guava 5% Cream vs. Clotrimazole 1% Cream in the Treatment of Tinea corporis of Patients Seen at the Family Medicine Department of Quezon City General Hospital<\/h2><\/div>

Ma. Victoria Valenzuela-Gochingco, MD<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Objective: To determine the efficacy of Guava 5% cream compared to Clotrimazole 1% cream in the treatment of Tinea corporis <\/em>of patients seen at Family Medicine Department of Quezon City General Hospital.<\/p>\n

Design: Randomized therapeutic clinical trial<\/p>\n

Setting: Department of Family and Community Medicine Out Patient Department of Quezon City General Hospital<\/p>\n

Study Subjects: Patients, male or female, 19 years old and above who consulted at Family and Community Medicine Department of Quezon City General Hospital<\/p>\n

Method: The study was done from August- September 2019. Fifty subjects were randomly assigned to either Group A (25) or Group B (25) using systematic sampling method. Patients in Group A were instructed to apply on affected area Clotrimazole 1% Cream twice a day for 2 weeks, while patients on Group B applied Guava 5% cream twice a day for 2 weeks. Patients were instructed follow up on Week 1 for improvement, Week 2 for evaluating outcome of treatment and Week 4 to check for recurrences.<\/p>\n

Results: Total severity scores of both Groups A and B at Week 1, Week 2 and Week 4 were similar with p-values of 0.014, 0.480 and 0.386 respectively. Both groups were comparable as to the treatment outcome for Tinea corporis<\/em>. Guava 5% cream is shown to be cost-effective considering the equally-effective treatment outcome and the lower average treatment cost.<\/p>\n

Conclusion: This study has shown that Guava 5% cream is equally effective as, and cheaper than Clotrimazole 1% cream, thus considered to be a cost-effective treatment for Tinea corporis<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Keywords: Guava cream, tinea corporis<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,20],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-3462","abstract","type-abstract","status-publish","hentry","category-abstract","category-abstract_2020_vol58_issue1","tag-abstract"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/abstract\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/abstract"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/abstract"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/abstract\/3462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3470,"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/abstract\/3462\/revisions\/3470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}