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ArticleAnnals of clinical psychiatry : official journal of the American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists2022

Skin picking disorder: Does a person's sex matter?

Jon E Grant, Samuel R Chamberlain

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Article in Annals of clinical psychiatry : official journal of the American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Jon E GrantDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Samuel R ChamberlainDepartment of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton Southampton, UK.
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust · GB

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Wellcome Trust 110049Wellcome Trust 110049/Z/15/AWellcome Trust 110049/Z/15/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundSkin picking disorder (SPD) is characterized by recurrent picking with scarring or tissue damage. Although research suggests that less than one-half of people with SPD are male, there is little clinical information about men with SPD.

methodsWe recruited 95 non-treatment-seeking adults as part of a cross-sectional study of SPD. Men (n = 17) and women (n = 78) with SPD were compared on clinical and cognitive measures. Sex differences in the demographic and clinical characteristics, skin picking sites, and presence of comorbidities were examined using analysis of variance for continuous variables and likelihood ratio Chi-square tests for categorical variables.

resultsMen were significantly more likely than women to report a first-degree relative with skin picking or hair pulling disorders (P = .0174). Men were less likely to pick from their scalps and backs and picked from fewer sites. Men and women did not significantly differ on skin picking severity, disability, impulsivity, or quality of life.

conclusionsThese data indicate that SPD is similarly impairing for men and women, but men may have higher familial loading and a somewhat different distribution and frequency of picking sites. Sex differences in SPD merit more detailed consideration in larger samples, including addressing potentially higher genetic/familial loading in males.

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Self-Injurious BehaviorTrichotillomaniaAdultComorbidityCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansImpulsive BehaviorMaleQuality of LifeSkin

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