Quality of life of patients living with psoriasis: a qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Psoriasis is a multifactorial inflammatory disease prevalent in dermatology. We aimed to understand the perceptions of patients living with psoriasis in relation to their quality of life and to identify aspects to improve it.

Methods

This is qualitative research carried out in a dermatology outpatient clinic of the São Paulo State University (UNESP) medical school, Botucatu, Brazil, with 81 psoriasis patients. The interviews were transcribed and analysed using the Discourse of the Collective Subject method (DCS).

Results

Quality of life was linked to well-being, happiness, leisure, good food and financial stability. However, disease symptoms, social and clothing restrictions, impairment of professional activities and the absence of a cure, negatively influe

SUBMITTER: Meneguin S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7727128 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature