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Abstract
Health-related quality of life reflects patients’ subjective evaluation of the impact of disease and/or treatment on their physical, psychological, and social functioning and well-being.
Health care in chronic disease is increasingly directed toward both a decrease of physical symptoms and an increase of quality of life. The number of outcome studies that include quality-of-life assessment is rapidly growing.
Psoriasis is a chronic skin disease affecting physical, psychological, and social functioning. Dermatologic treatment of psoriasis has become increasingly effective, but can only result in a temporary remission of physical symptoms.
A challenge to the patients is therefore to cope with psoriasis in everyday life. A challenge to dermatologic care is to realize long-lasting remittance of physical symptoms as well as a substantial improvement of quality of life.
For many years, studies have been published on the psychological and social aspects of psoriasis. Nevertheless, it is only for about a decade that these studies have become more uniform in their research methodology. This uniformity is particularly increased by the development and use of quality-of-life questionnaires. Application of these questionnaires enables comparisons of quality-of-life data across patients with psoriasis, as well as comparisons with data of patients with other (skin) diseases and the general population.
The present study was designed to evaluate the quality of life and response to PUVA therapy in patients with psoriasis. It was carried out in Dermatology Clinic of Suez Canal University Hospital at Ismailia city. It included 36 cases presented with varying degrees of psoriasis. All patients were subjected to full history taking, dermatological examination, assessment of psoriasis severity by PASI, measurement of QoL by QoLI both before and 1.5 – 2 months after treatment with PUVA.
In short, the results of the present study revealed beneficial effects of PUVA therapy on the quality of life of patients with psoriasis. Thus, physicians planning treatment for patients with psoriasis should consider the severity of skin lesions, and the psychological and social aspects of the disease, which include (the management of anxiety, depression, and stress and enhancement of patients’ sense of control over the disease and its consequences).