BACKGROUND Buruli Ulcer is a tropical skin disease caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, which, due to scarring and contractures can lead to stigma and functional limitations. However, recent advances in treatment, combined with increased public health efforts have the potential to significantly improve disease outcome. OBJECTIVES To study the Quality of Life (QoL) of former Buruli Ulcer patients...

background: primary axillary hyperhidrosis (pah) is a common condition with a great impact on the patient’s quality of life (qol). it is associated with serious social, emotional, and occupational distress. the aim of this study was to investigate the qol in patients with pah before and after treatment with fractionated microneedle radiofrequency (fmr). materials and methods: we evaluated 25 pa...

Subjective-symptom tools used in dermatology have rarely been experimentally tested for cognitive "focus" and "framing" biases. We investigated the effects of affective biases on the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI), the Global Health Question and visual analogue scores. Two experiments tested the response to affect-eliciting words and film. We demonstrated no significant difference in med...

BACKGROUND Measuring the quality of life (QOL) is important in the evaluation of nonclinical aspects of diseases, for the discovery of functional and psychological limitations, and in choosing treatment in the initial phase of the disease. Pemphigus is a potentially fatal autoimmune bullous disease caused by autoantibodies against desmogleins (cadherin family proteins in desmosomes). Thus far, ...

BACKGROUND Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory disease of the skin that affects patients of all ages and both genders. The impact of the disease on quality of life is greater among patients with moderate to severe psoriasis. OBJECTIVE to establish a correlation between the psoriasis area and severity index (PASI) and the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) based on a quality of life questio...

Introduction: Vitiligo is one of the most prevalent acquired depigmentation disorders that can produce significant psychosocial burden in patients who suffer from poor body image, low self-esteem, and considerable level of disability from the disease. Purpose: The purpose of the study is to assess the quality of life (QoL) using the dermatological life quality index (DLQI), attitude to appearan...

BACKGROUND Chronic urticaria severely affects quality of life. To date, no gold standard has been established to measure the burden of suffering, which often correlates poorly with the skin symptoms observed in patients with chronic urticaria. OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of psychological factors on the course of urticaria. METHODS Health-related quality of life was assessed in 95 pa...

Background. Advanced basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is often treated by surgery or X-ray therapy. The consequences of X-ray therapy on the patients' health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) have so far not been described. Objectives. To quantify quality of life in BCC patients before and after X-ray therapy compared with matched healthy controls. Materials. Twenty-five patients (mean age 69) with BCC...

BACKGROUND The Global Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis aims to interrupt transmission of lymphatic filariasis and manage morbidity in people currently living with the disease. A component of morbidity management is improving health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients. Measurement of HRQoL in current management programs is varied because of the lack of a standard HRQoL tool for ...