Assessing a measure for Quality of Life in patients with severe Alopecia Areata: a multicentric Italian study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The prevalence of anxiety and depression in patients diagnosed with Alopecia Areata (AA) is very high and this significant burden of psychological symptoms threatens the Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) of affected patients. Indeed, AA often does not produce significant physical symptoms, but it nonetheless disrupts many areas of mental health. Clinical assessment of disease severity may not reliably predict patient's HRQoL, nor may it predict the patient's perception of illness. For this reason, considerable effort has been made to apply and develop measures that consider patient's perception and assess the HRQoL of individuals affected by AA. The aim of this multicentric study was to provide the Italian version of the Skindex-16AA and to evaluate its psychometric

SUBMITTER: Caldarola G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11363427 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature