ArticleTransactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene2022
Health-related quality of life impact of scabies in the Solomon Islands.
Article in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.
- Psychological and behavioral burden of scabies: a comprehensive cross-sectional analysis of pruritus, anxiety, behavioral adaptation, and quality of life.BMC primary care · 2026Article
- The Impact of Disease-Related Fear and Internalized Stigma on Quality of Life in Patients with Scabies: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Quality of Life in Patients With Scabies.Cureus · 2025Article
- The Incidence of Scabies in Far North Queensland, Tropical Australia: Implications for Local Clinical Practice and Public Health Strategies.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Article
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Scabies Patients: The Overlooked Part of a Global Outbreak.Cureus · 2025Article
- High caseload of Scabies amongst Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh: A retrospective analysis of the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of cases, July 2022 to November 2023.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Association between Scabies Treatment and Parkinson's Disease: A Nationwide, Population-Based Study.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Scabies.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2024Review
- Investigation of the effect of oral ivermectin on systemic inflammatory response and quality of life in scabies patients.Archives of dermatological research · 2024Article
- Dermatology Quality of Life and Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale-42 in Scabies Patients.Dermatology practical & conceptual · 2024Article
- Low prevalence of scabies and impetigo in Dakar/Senegal: A cluster-randomised, cross-sectional survey.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Beliefs, attitudes and practices towards scabies in central Ghana.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
11 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundScabies causes intense itching and skin lesions. A small number of studies have shown that scabies impacts health-related quality of life (HRQoL), but no studies have been conducted in the Pacific region. We assessed the impact of scabies on HRQoL in a high-prevalence setting using the Children's Dermatology Life Quality Index (CDLQI) and Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI). We also assessed the validity of these tools in a Pacific Island population.
methodsThe study was conducted in the Solomon Islands. Participants with and without skin disease were randomly selected. HRQoL indices were scored on a scale of 0-30.
resultsWe surveyed 1051 adults (91 with scabies) and 604 children (103 with scabies). Scabies had a small impact on HRQoL, with a median DLQI score of 2 (interquartile range [IQR] 0-6) and a CDLQI score of 2 (IQR 0-4). Scores increased linearly with severity. The greatest impact on QoL was due to itch, sleep disturbance and impacts on education and employment.
conclusionsScabies has a small but measurable impact on HRQoL. The DLQI and CDLQI scores were discriminated between the skin-related QoL of patients with scabies and the control group, indicating that these tools are appropriate to measure skin-related QoL in the Solomon Islands.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.