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- Title
Quality of life in acne vulgaris: Relationship to clinical severity and demographic data.
- Authors
Gupta, Aayush; Sharma, Yugal Kishor; Dash, Kedar Nath; Chaudhari, Nitin Dinkar; Jethani, Sumit
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Acne vulgaris is known to impair many aspects of quality of life. However, the correlation of this impairment with clinical severity remains equivocal despite various school, community and hospital-based studies.<bold>Aim: </bold>A hospital-based study was undertaken to measure the impairment of quality of life of patients of acne vulgaris and correlate it with the severity of lesions.<bold>Methods: </bold>This was a cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study in a cohort of 100 patients of acne vulgaris attending the outpatient department of our referral hospital. A physician measured the severity of lesions using the global acne grading system, and patients assessed quality of life by completing a questionnaire (Cardiff acne disability index). A correlation of these two was done; some additional correlations were brought out through demographic data collected from the patients.<bold>Results: </bold>There was no correlation between the severity of acne vulgaris and an impaired quality of life. Patients who consumed alcohol and/or smoked cigarettes were found to have an impaired quality of life. While the severity of acne progressively lessened in older patients, the impact on quality of life increased.<bold>Limitations: </bold>The sample size was small and there was a lack of guaranteed reliability on the self-reported quality of life.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>The severity of acne vulgaris does not correlate with impairment in quality of life.
- Subjects
ACNE; QUALITY of life; DEMOGRAPHIC surveys; TISSUE wounds; QUESTIONNAIRES; MENTAL health; DEMOGRAPHY; LONGITUDINAL method; CROSS-sectional method; SEVERITY of illness index; DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology & Leprology, 2016, Vol 82, Issue 3, p292
- ISSN
0378-6323
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.4103/0378-6323.173593