Real-world Evidence of Self-reported Treatments, Signs, and Symptom Burden in Chronic Hand Eczema: Findings from the Multinational CHECK Study.

ABSTRACT: Chronic hand eczema is a multifactorial disease that can impact quality of life considerably. This observational questionnaire study aimed to investigate real-world treatments and patients' experiences of disease burden across the broad severity spectrum represent-ed by the general chronic hand eczema population. The study included 1,948 individuals from 6 countries (mean age 43.2 years; 64.5% females) with self-reported physician-diagnosed chronic hand eczema. Ongoing treatment was reported in 68.6%, which included systemics or phototherapy (with or without topicals; 10.7%), topical corticosteroids (with or without additional topicals; 36.0%) and other topical treatments (no topical corticosteroids; 21.8%). At survey time, 43.0% were in flare state. About half, 51.1%, reported moderate to

SUBMITTER: Molin S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12825291 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature