Dermatology Specific Quality of Life in Vitiligo Patients and Its Relation with Various Variables: A Hospital Based Cross-sectional Study
Introduction: Vitiligo is an acquired, idiopathic skin disease characterized by progressive loss of the inherited skin color. Vitiligo has a special significance to patients in our country because depigmentation is obvious on dark skin and due to the enormous stigma that the disease carries. Ma...
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| description | Introduction: Vitiligo is an acquired, idiopathic skin disease
characterized by progressive loss of the inherited skin color.
Vitiligo has a special significance to patients in our country
because depigmentation is obvious on dark skin and due to the
enormous stigma that the disease carries.
Materials and Methods: One hundred vitiligo patients aged
more than 18 years were included in our hospital based study
depending on inclusion and exclusion criteria. All the patients
were asked to fill a validated Hindi version of DLQI questionnaire.
DLQI scores and its interpretation were recorded separately.
correlation of DLQI Scores with different variables like age, body
surface area, duration of disease and socioeconomic status were
studied using Pearson’s correlations. Mean DLQI scores were
also compared between different groups.
Results: Male and female patient were statistically similar in
all variables, like their age, BSA of the involvement and DLQI
score. DLQI interpretation showed that out of 100 patients of
vitiligo, 16 felt no effect of vitiligo on their quality of life while
84 patients reported small to very large effect on their quality of
life. Out of this 84, 37 felt small effects, 21 felt moderate effect
and rest 26 felt very large effect on their quality of life. There was
no significant difference among the different groups mentioned
except very large effect on quality of life seen significantly more
in unmarried patients compared to married one.
Conclusion: Vitiligo although a cosmetic disease without any
symptoms, it carry a significant social stigma especially in Indian
society. Data interpretation in this study indicates that vitiligo
affects QOL in majority of vitiligo patients and such patients require
more aggressive and empathic attitude from a dermatologist to
cure/improve this so called chronic cosmetic disease. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-642af44920344312a049f298312e37962022-12-21T18:49:26ZengJCDR Research and Publications Private LimitedJournal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research2249-782X0973-709X2014-06-0186YC01YC0310.7860/JCDR/2014/8248.4508Dermatology Specific Quality of Life in Vitiligo Patients and Its Relation with Various Variables: A Hospital Based Cross-sectional StudyNitin Mishra0Madhur K. Rastogi1Pratik Gahalaut2Shikha Agrawal3Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology, Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly, (UP), India.Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly, (UP), India.Professor, Department of Dermatology, Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly, (UP), India.Junior Resident, Department of Psychiatry, Deva Mental Health Care, Durgakund, Varanasi, India.Introduction: Vitiligo is an acquired, idiopathic skin disease characterized by progressive loss of the inherited skin color. Vitiligo has a special significance to patients in our country because depigmentation is obvious on dark skin and due to the enormous stigma that the disease carries. Materials and Methods: One hundred vitiligo patients aged more than 18 years were included in our hospital based study depending on inclusion and exclusion criteria. All the patients were asked to fill a validated Hindi version of DLQI questionnaire. DLQI scores and its interpretation were recorded separately. correlation of DLQI Scores with different variables like age, body surface area, duration of disease and socioeconomic status were studied using Pearson’s correlations. Mean DLQI scores were also compared between different groups. Results: Male and female patient were statistically similar in all variables, like their age, BSA of the involvement and DLQI score. DLQI interpretation showed that out of 100 patients of vitiligo, 16 felt no effect of vitiligo on their quality of life while 84 patients reported small to very large effect on their quality of life. Out of this 84, 37 felt small effects, 21 felt moderate effect and rest 26 felt very large effect on their quality of life. There was no significant difference among the different groups mentioned except very large effect on quality of life seen significantly more in unmarried patients compared to married one. Conclusion: Vitiligo although a cosmetic disease without any symptoms, it carry a significant social stigma especially in Indian society. Data interpretation in this study indicates that vitiligo affects QOL in majority of vitiligo patients and such patients require more aggressive and empathic attitude from a dermatologist to cure/improve this so called chronic cosmetic disease.https://jcdr.net/articles/PDF/4508/8248_CE(RA)_F(T)_PF1(PP)_PFA(AK)_PF2(PAG)_PF2(PN).pdfdlqiquality of lifeindiavitiligo |
| spellingShingle | Nitin Mishra Madhur K. Rastogi Pratik Gahalaut Shikha Agrawal Dermatology Specific Quality of Life in Vitiligo Patients and Its Relation with Various Variables: A Hospital Based Cross-sectional Study Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research dlqi quality of life india vitiligo |
| title | Dermatology Specific Quality of Life in Vitiligo Patients and Its Relation with Various Variables: A Hospital Based Cross-sectional Study |
| title_full | Dermatology Specific Quality of Life in Vitiligo Patients and Its Relation with Various Variables: A Hospital Based Cross-sectional Study |
| title_fullStr | Dermatology Specific Quality of Life in Vitiligo Patients and Its Relation with Various Variables: A Hospital Based Cross-sectional Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dermatology Specific Quality of Life in Vitiligo Patients and Its Relation with Various Variables: A Hospital Based Cross-sectional Study |
| title_short | Dermatology Specific Quality of Life in Vitiligo Patients and Its Relation with Various Variables: A Hospital Based Cross-sectional Study |
| title_sort | dermatology specific quality of life in vitiligo patients and its relation with various variables a hospital based cross sectional study |
| topic | dlqi quality of life india vitiligo |
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