Dermatillomania: Strategies for Developing Protective Biomaterials/Cloth.

ABSTRACT: Dermatillomania or skin picking disorder (SPD) is a chronic, recurrent, and treatment resistant neuropsychiatric disorder with an underestimated prevalence that has a concerning negative impact on an individual's health and quality of life. The current treatment strategies focus on behavioral and pharmacological therapies that are not very effective. Thus, the primary objective of this review is to provide an introduction to SPD and discuss its current treatment strategies as well as to propose biomaterial-based physical barrier strategies as a supporting or alternative treatment. To this end, searches were conducted within the PubMed database and Google Scholar, and the results obtained were organized and presented as per the following categories: prevalence, etiology, consequences, diagn

SUBMITTER: Ravipati P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8001957 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature