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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020

Associations between Disease Activity/Severity and Damage and Health-Related Quality of Life in Adult Patients with Localized Scleroderma-A Comparison of LoSCAT and Visual Analogue Scales.

Anna Lis-Święty, Alina Skrzypek-Salamon, Irmina Ranosz-Janicka, Ligia Brzezińska-Wcisło

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anna Lis-ŚwiętyDepartment of Dermatology, School of Medicine in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Francuska 20/24, 40-027 Katowice, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-3493-7710
Alina Skrzypek-SalamonDepartment of Dermatology, School of Medicine in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Francuska 20/24, 40-027 Katowice, Poland.
Irmina Ranosz-JanickaDepartment of Dermatology, School of Medicine in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Francuska 20/24, 40-027 Katowice, Poland.
Ligia Brzezińska-WcisłoDepartment of Dermatology, School of Medicine in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, Francuska 20/24, 40-027 Katowice, Poland.
Medical University of Silesia · PL

Funding

Śląski Uniwersytet Medyczny KNW-1-058/N/9/K
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Localized scleroderma (LoS) is a chronic fibrosing disorder of the skin and, less commonly, subcutaneous tissues. As the disease causes subjective symptoms, cosmetic defects, and, at times, functional disability, subjects with LoS experience deterioration of their health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The influence of disease activity/severity and damage status on HRQoL measures in patients with LoS is scarcely known. Physician-reported measures (modified LoS skin severity index, LoS skin damage index, physician global assessments of the disease activity/severity and damage) and patient-derived measures (patient global assessments of the disease activity/severity and damage) were obtained in adult LoS patients. Their HRQoL was measured with Skindex-29 and Short Form-36. The patients' assessments of disease activity/severity and damage in LoS differed from the assessments by the physicians. The patients' predominant concerns centered on LoS-related damage, whereas the physicians' concerns focused on features of disease activity. Visual analogue scales bore some relation to the HRQoL, and they seem to be important in a holistic approach to the patient and should not be omitted in LoS evaluation.

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PMID32168819
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