Cargando…

Worsening Quality of Life in Young Adult, Highly Educated, and Married Female Patients with Vitiligo: A Hospital-Based Case Control Study in Taiwan

Vitiligo is an acquired chronic depigmentation disorder that can have a negative impact on the quality of life (QoL). This is especially true for patients with non-white skin. Only few studies have investigated the QoL of Asian patients with vitiligo. We aimed to investigate the QoL in Taiwanese vit...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Yang, Yuan-Ting, Hsu, Chung-Hao, Wang, Yu-Fen, Chang, Yu-Jun, Yang, Hui-Ju, Ko, Jiunn-Liang, Yang, Kuo-Chia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9180357/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35682324
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116741
_version_ 1784723498510319616
author Yang, Yuan-Ting
Hsu, Chung-Hao
Wang, Yu-Fen
Chang, Yu-Jun
Yang, Hui-Ju
Ko, Jiunn-Liang
Yang, Kuo-Chia
author_facet Yang, Yuan-Ting
Hsu, Chung-Hao
Wang, Yu-Fen
Chang, Yu-Jun
Yang, Hui-Ju
Ko, Jiunn-Liang
Yang, Kuo-Chia
author_sort Yang, Yuan-Ting
collection PubMed
description Vitiligo is an acquired chronic depigmentation disorder that can have a negative impact on the quality of life (QoL). This is especially true for patients with non-white skin. Only few studies have investigated the QoL of Asian patients with vitiligo. We aimed to investigate the QoL in Taiwanese vitiligo patients and identify the factors that influence their QoL. The cross-sectional study recruited 100 vitiligo patients and 100 controls with general skin diseases in the Department of Dermatology of Changhua Christian Hospital. Data were obtained using a structured questionnaire for demographic information and modified Skindex-21 instruments. The QoL was not significantly different between vitiligo patients and controls. Among the vitiligo patients, adults exhibited deteriorated emotional levels and total QoL as compared with non-adults. Married females reported greater levels of emotional disturbance than the unmarried ones. A higher educational level and shorter history of disease were associated with greater emotional impacts. The patients with a generalized type of vitiligo suffered more in total QoL. After multivariate adjustment, the young adult patients aged 20–39 were associated with poorer total QoL. It is suggested that vitiligo patients who are aged between 20 and 39, are married females, are highly educated, have a shorter disease history, and suffer from the generalized type of this disease demonstrate more deterioration in their life quality compared with other vitiligo patients. Care providers should tailor the psychological counseling and treatment accordingly.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-9180357
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2022
publisher MDPI
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-91803572022-06-10 Worsening Quality of Life in Young Adult, Highly Educated, and Married Female Patients with Vitiligo: A Hospital-Based Case Control Study in Taiwan Yang, Yuan-Ting Hsu, Chung-Hao Wang, Yu-Fen Chang, Yu-Jun Yang, Hui-Ju Ko, Jiunn-Liang Yang, Kuo-Chia Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Vitiligo is an acquired chronic depigmentation disorder that can have a negative impact on the quality of life (QoL). This is especially true for patients with non-white skin. Only few studies have investigated the QoL of Asian patients with vitiligo. We aimed to investigate the QoL in Taiwanese vitiligo patients and identify the factors that influence their QoL. The cross-sectional study recruited 100 vitiligo patients and 100 controls with general skin diseases in the Department of Dermatology of Changhua Christian Hospital. Data were obtained using a structured questionnaire for demographic information and modified Skindex-21 instruments. The QoL was not significantly different between vitiligo patients and controls. Among the vitiligo patients, adults exhibited deteriorated emotional levels and total QoL as compared with non-adults. Married females reported greater levels of emotional disturbance than the unmarried ones. A higher educational level and shorter history of disease were associated with greater emotional impacts. The patients with a generalized type of vitiligo suffered more in total QoL. After multivariate adjustment, the young adult patients aged 20–39 were associated with poorer total QoL. It is suggested that vitiligo patients who are aged between 20 and 39, are married females, are highly educated, have a shorter disease history, and suffer from the generalized type of this disease demonstrate more deterioration in their life quality compared with other vitiligo patients. Care providers should tailor the psychological counseling and treatment accordingly. MDPI 2022-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9180357/ /pubmed/35682324 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116741 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
spellingShingle Article
Yang, Yuan-Ting
Hsu, Chung-Hao
Wang, Yu-Fen
Chang, Yu-Jun
Yang, Hui-Ju
Ko, Jiunn-Liang
Yang, Kuo-Chia
Worsening Quality of Life in Young Adult, Highly Educated, and Married Female Patients with Vitiligo: A Hospital-Based Case Control Study in Taiwan
title Worsening Quality of Life in Young Adult, Highly Educated, and Married Female Patients with Vitiligo: A Hospital-Based Case Control Study in Taiwan
title_full Worsening Quality of Life in Young Adult, Highly Educated, and Married Female Patients with Vitiligo: A Hospital-Based Case Control Study in Taiwan
title_fullStr Worsening Quality of Life in Young Adult, Highly Educated, and Married Female Patients with Vitiligo: A Hospital-Based Case Control Study in Taiwan
title_full_unstemmed Worsening Quality of Life in Young Adult, Highly Educated, and Married Female Patients with Vitiligo: A Hospital-Based Case Control Study in Taiwan
title_short Worsening Quality of Life in Young Adult, Highly Educated, and Married Female Patients with Vitiligo: A Hospital-Based Case Control Study in Taiwan
title_sort worsening quality of life in young adult, highly educated, and married female patients with vitiligo: a hospital-based case control study in taiwan
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9180357/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35682324
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19116741
work_keys_str_mv AT yangyuanting worseningqualityoflifeinyoungadulthighlyeducatedandmarriedfemalepatientswithvitiligoahospitalbasedcasecontrolstudyintaiwan
AT hsuchunghao worseningqualityoflifeinyoungadulthighlyeducatedandmarriedfemalepatientswithvitiligoahospitalbasedcasecontrolstudyintaiwan
AT wangyufen worseningqualityoflifeinyoungadulthighlyeducatedandmarriedfemalepatientswithvitiligoahospitalbasedcasecontrolstudyintaiwan
AT changyujun worseningqualityoflifeinyoungadulthighlyeducatedandmarriedfemalepatientswithvitiligoahospitalbasedcasecontrolstudyintaiwan
AT yanghuiju worseningqualityoflifeinyoungadulthighlyeducatedandmarriedfemalepatientswithvitiligoahospitalbasedcasecontrolstudyintaiwan
AT kojiunnliang worseningqualityoflifeinyoungadulthighlyeducatedandmarriedfemalepatientswithvitiligoahospitalbasedcasecontrolstudyintaiwan
AT yangkuochia worseningqualityoflifeinyoungadulthighlyeducatedandmarriedfemalepatientswithvitiligoahospitalbasedcasecontrolstudyintaiwan