Z Hajheydari, M Zarghami, R.a Mohamad Pour, A.a Khajeh,
Volume 15, Issue 50 (1-2006)
Abstract
Background and purpose: Psychological health is one of the most important social and scientific subjects in the world. Patients with somatic and particularly dermatological diseases are at risk of psychological disorder. This study was performed to evaluate psychological health problems of patients with skin disorder attending the dermatological clinics in Sari in 2004.
Materials and methods: This is a descriptive study performed on patients with dermatological diseases in Sari using GHQ-28 and demographic questionares. The data were analysed by chi-square test using SPSS program.
Results: 404 subjects (325, 80.4% female) were enrolled in this study. The mean age of the subjects was 28.72 years (range 15-65).
Ïncidence of psychoccognitive disorders was 52/6% in patients aged 46-55 yr, 41.2% in womens, 40.8% in single patients, 46.2/% in rural subjects, 62.5% in illiterate or lessliterate people, 57.8% in jobless individual, 65/8% in subjects with positive past history of psychological disorders and 63.6% in patients with diffuse skin lesions.
The most common diagnosis in the sample population was acne (28.2%), pigmentation disorder (20%), androgenetic alopecia (7.4%) and dermatitis (6.7%). The incidence of psychocongective disorders was 44.4% in patients with dermatitis, 43% in acne and 42% in pigmentation disorders.
Statistically significant differences were observed between the psychic disorder and job & literacy level and positive past history of psychological diseases (p<0.05). However, there was no significant relation between psychic disorder and duration & type of skin diseases.
Çonclusion: Ïn this study, 39.4 % of patients with skin disorders affected by psychological problems, this is higher than that reported from other countries.
This result reveals a close relation between dermatological and psychological factors which should be considered by dermatologists in effective treatment of skin disorders.
Z Hajheydari, M Golpour,
Volume 17, Issue 57 (3-2007)
Abstract
Background and purpose: Skin disorders are the most common preseting health problems. According to dermatological researches, only scant studies estimated the prevalence of skin diseases in the general population. This study was performed to assess the prevalence of skin diseases in Sari, Mazandaran, North of Iran.
Materials and Methods: This retrospective study was carried out on all of the patients referred to Boo-Ali Sina hospital in Sari, in 2003-2004. All data such as diagnosis of skin problem, age, sex, marrital status and job were recorded. Diagnoses were classified according to the international classification of diseases (ICD-10). Results were analyzed with descriptive statistics using SPSS software.
Results: A total of 4460 patients with mean age of 28.01±16.2 years including 1807 (40.4%) men and 2653 (59.7%) women were studied. Most of the patients (33.4%) referred in summer. The most common observed skin disease was appendices disorders (24%) the most common of which acne (55.8%) and androgenic alopecia (30%). The second common problem was infections (23.3%) and dermatitis (19.8%) was the third. Irritant contact dermatitis (82.7%) was the most common form of dermatitis.
Conclusion: We found that prevalence and distribution of skin disorders in the study area are different from those of other parts of Iran. More studies are needed to identify common skin disorders in Iran.
