ArticleActa dermato-venereologica2021
Illness Perception, Perceived Social Support and Quality of Life in Patients with Pemphigus Vulgaris: What Should Dermatologists Know?
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A Systematic Review of 207 Studies Describing Validation Aspects of the Dermatology Life Quality Index.Acta dermato-venereologica · 2024Pooled it
- Illness perception and psychosocial adjustment in young and middle-aged liver transplant recipients during the early postoperative period: the serial mediating roles of perceived social support and quality of life.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Clinical Phenotype Transition in Pemphigus May Suggest Undertreatment with Rituximab: Findings from a Retrospective Single-Centre Analysis of Relapsed Patients.Dermatology (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Illness-related stigma mediates the association between disease severity and dermatology- specific quality of life in chronic inflammatory skin diseases: a structural equation modeling study.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- The relationship between illness perception and quality of life among Chinese rural elderly patients with hypertension: the mediating role of medication experience.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Effects of social support on vision-related quality of life in older adults with dry eye disease: the chain mediating role of illness perception and coping style.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Social support mediates the relationship between illness perception and psychosocial adaptation among young and middle-aged kidney transplant recipients in China.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Patient Quality of Life Improvement in Bullous Disease: A Review of Primary Literature and Considerations for the Clinician.Clinical, cosmetic and investigational dermatology · 2022Review
- The multifactorial complexities of autoimmune development in Pemphigus vulgaris: Critical evaluation of the role of environmental and lifestyle "exposome" factors.Frontiers in immunology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Data regarding the impact of psychological factors in patients with pemphigus is sparse. This study evaluated the correlation of demographic, clinical, and psychological parameters with quality of life in 58 patients with pemphigus. Illness perception showed a realistic view, with the highest scores for cyclical course (3.35 ± 0.09) and treatment control (3.08 ± 0.06). Mean scores for perceived social support were relatively high from family and significant others (5.89 ± 0.18 and 5.66 ± 0.23, accordingly), and relatively low from friends (4.55 ± 0.24). There were no correlations be-tween demographic, clinical parameters, perceived social support, and Dermatology Life Quality Index. Beliefs in cyclical course, emotional influence, psychological cause, and treatment control correlated significantly with quality of life. Stronger beliefs in self-control, chronicity, and accidental cause predicted higher quality of life, while stronger beliefs in cyclical course, psychological cause, and risk factors predicted lower quality of life. In order to enhance QoL, dermatologists should deliver the message to the patients that pemphigus is a chronic disease rather than cyclical and unexpected, and stress the patients' role in controlling it.
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