{"id":312,"date":"2016-03-12T09:42:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T09:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drsandeshgupta.com\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2016-03-12T09:42:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T09:42:46","slug":"quality-of-life-and-psoriasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drsandeshgupta.com\/blog\/quality-of-life-and-psoriasis\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality of life and psoriasis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Psoriasis<\/a> is a chronic inflammatory skin condition of physical impact on skin, but it also has a profound influence on a patient’s QoL. It equally affects both genders, arises at all ages and concerns 2.5% of the world’s population. It brings social stigmatization 2.5% of the world’s population. It brings social stigmatization, pain, discomfort, physical disability and psychological stress. According to Dermatologists in Delhi<\/a> Psoriasis is a disease with profound impact upon the psycho physiological profile of the patient, particularly since highly visible. Thus assessment by a health professional of the extent of apparent disease in terms of clinical severity alone may not suffice, and a more holistic approach to the QoL becomes mandatory. Skin Specialists<\/a> says an improvement in the overall psychosocial morbidity associated with the disease in an important associated part of a favorable treatment outcome.<\/p>\n

Very few Skin studies have examined this aspect in Indian patients with psoriasis. Using psoriasis Area severity index ( PASI ), Psoriasis Disability Index ( PDI ), and psoriasis life stress inventory ( PLSI ), a study. Showed that daily activities, employment and treatment were the most affected factors in these patients with psoriasis who are also most likely to feel self – conscious, disturbed or inconvenienced by the abnormal shedding of the skin, live in a constant fear of relapse , and avoid social interactions. A recent study using the QoL and PDI in psoriatic patients attending a south Indian medical college Hospital, showed that QoL was affected in 75% of the patients, daily activities being the most affected .(By Dermatologist<\/strong> and Skin Specialist<\/strong>)..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin condition of physical impact on skin, but it also has a profound influence on a patient’s QoL. It equally affects both genders, arises at all ages and concerns 2.5% of the world’s population. It brings social stigmatization 2.5% of the world’s population. It brings social stigmatization, pain, discomfort, physical… Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drsandeshgupta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drsandeshgupta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drsandeshgupta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drsandeshgupta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drsandeshgupta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.drsandeshgupta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/www.drsandeshgupta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drsandeshgupta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drsandeshgupta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drsandeshgupta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drsandeshgupta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}