Association Between Hair Diseases and COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Stress: A Cross-Sectional Study Analysis

INTRODUCTION: Psychological stress from the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic can potentially aggravate the course of several stress-sensitive skin and hair diseases. This study aimed to determine the potential association of COVID-19 stress with hair diseases, such as telogen eff...

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Autores principales: Mahadi, Ashrafur Rahaman, Rafi, Md. Abdur, Shahriar, Tasnim, Seemanta, Senjuti, Rabbani, Md. Golam, Akter, Munjarin, Majumder, Mahabubul Islam, Hasan, M. Tasdik
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9133810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35647001
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.876561
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author Mahadi, Ashrafur Rahaman
Rafi, Md. Abdur
Shahriar, Tasnim
Seemanta, Senjuti
Rabbani, Md. Golam
Akter, Munjarin
Majumder, Mahabubul Islam
Hasan, M. Tasdik
author_facet Mahadi, Ashrafur Rahaman
Rafi, Md. Abdur
Shahriar, Tasnim
Seemanta, Senjuti
Rabbani, Md. Golam
Akter, Munjarin
Majumder, Mahabubul Islam
Hasan, M. Tasdik
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description INTRODUCTION: Psychological stress from the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic can potentially aggravate the course of several stress-sensitive skin and hair diseases. This study aimed to determine the potential association of COVID-19 stress with hair diseases, such as telogen effluvium (TE), alopecia areata (AA), and seborrheic dermatitis (SD), among medical students in Bangladesh. METHODS: This online-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 404 medical students of Bangladesh using a self-administered questionnaire, including sociodemographic information, status of hair diseases (i.e., TE, AA, and SD), COVID-19 fear scale, impact of event scale specific for COVID-19 (IES-COVID-19), and COVID-19 student stress questionnaire (CSSQ) scale, to determine pandemic-related stress. The logistic regression model was used to analyze the association. RESULTS: Overall prevalence of TE, AA, and SD was 61.1, 24.7, and 57.7%, respectively, with female predominance in case of TE and male predominance in case of AA and SD. More than half of the participants had COVID-19-related fear and traumatic stress symptoms. In the multiple logistic regression model, smoking [adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 2.93, 95% CI 1.29–6.65 for AA and aOR 4.19, 95% CI 1.83–9.56 for TE], COVID-19-related fear (aOR 1.70, 95% CI 1.01–2.89 for AA and aOR 2.620, 95% CI 1.25–5.48 for TE), and COVID-19-related traumatic stress symptoms (aOR 1.84, 95% CI 1.08–3.13 for AA, aOR 2.61, 95% CI 1.19–5.68 for TE, and aOR 1.92, 95% CI 1.14–3.25 for SD) were the risk factors of hair fall disorders. CONCLUSION: Our study showed that a large number of medical students experienced TE, AA, and SD during the pandemic era. COVID-19-related stress and fear potentially have an association with these diseases.
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spelling pubmed-91338102022-05-27 Association Between Hair Diseases and COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Stress: A Cross-Sectional Study Analysis Mahadi, Ashrafur Rahaman Rafi, Md. Abdur Shahriar, Tasnim Seemanta, Senjuti Rabbani, Md. Golam Akter, Munjarin Majumder, Mahabubul Islam Hasan, M. Tasdik Front Med (Lausanne) Medicine INTRODUCTION: Psychological stress from the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic can potentially aggravate the course of several stress-sensitive skin and hair diseases. This study aimed to determine the potential association of COVID-19 stress with hair diseases, such as telogen effluvium (TE), alopecia areata (AA), and seborrheic dermatitis (SD), among medical students in Bangladesh. METHODS: This online-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 404 medical students of Bangladesh using a self-administered questionnaire, including sociodemographic information, status of hair diseases (i.e., TE, AA, and SD), COVID-19 fear scale, impact of event scale specific for COVID-19 (IES-COVID-19), and COVID-19 student stress questionnaire (CSSQ) scale, to determine pandemic-related stress. The logistic regression model was used to analyze the association. RESULTS: Overall prevalence of TE, AA, and SD was 61.1, 24.7, and 57.7%, respectively, with female predominance in case of TE and male predominance in case of AA and SD. More than half of the participants had COVID-19-related fear and traumatic stress symptoms. In the multiple logistic regression model, smoking [adjusted odds ratio (aOR) 2.93, 95% CI 1.29–6.65 for AA and aOR 4.19, 95% CI 1.83–9.56 for TE], COVID-19-related fear (aOR 1.70, 95% CI 1.01–2.89 for AA and aOR 2.620, 95% CI 1.25–5.48 for TE), and COVID-19-related traumatic stress symptoms (aOR 1.84, 95% CI 1.08–3.13 for AA, aOR 2.61, 95% CI 1.19–5.68 for TE, and aOR 1.92, 95% CI 1.14–3.25 for SD) were the risk factors of hair fall disorders. CONCLUSION: Our study showed that a large number of medical students experienced TE, AA, and SD during the pandemic era. COVID-19-related stress and fear potentially have an association with these diseases. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9133810/ /pubmed/35647001 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.876561 Text en Copyright © 2022 Mahadi, Rafi, Shahriar, Seemanta, Rabbani, Akter, Majumder and Hasan. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Medicine
Mahadi, Ashrafur Rahaman
Rafi, Md. Abdur
Shahriar, Tasnim
Seemanta, Senjuti
Rabbani, Md. Golam
Akter, Munjarin
Majumder, Mahabubul Islam
Hasan, M. Tasdik
Association Between Hair Diseases and COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Stress: A Cross-Sectional Study Analysis
title Association Between Hair Diseases and COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Stress: A Cross-Sectional Study Analysis
title_full Association Between Hair Diseases and COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Stress: A Cross-Sectional Study Analysis
title_fullStr Association Between Hair Diseases and COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Stress: A Cross-Sectional Study Analysis
title_full_unstemmed Association Between Hair Diseases and COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Stress: A Cross-Sectional Study Analysis
title_short Association Between Hair Diseases and COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Stress: A Cross-Sectional Study Analysis
title_sort association between hair diseases and covid-19 pandemic-related stress: a cross-sectional study analysis
topic Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9133810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35647001
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.876561
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