ArticleAdvances in medicine2023
Evaluation of the Awareness, Beliefs, and Psychological Impact of Patients with Alopecia Areata in Makkah City, Saudi Arabia.
Article in Advances in medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06802705 (The Impact of Psychosocial Stress on Quality of Life in Saudi Arabian Patients With Alopecia Areata), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The Impact of Psychosocial Stress on Quality of Life in Saudi Arabian Patients With Alopecia Areata
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Alopecia areata - Quality of Life Questionnaire - formation and validation of the Polish version.Postepy dermatologii i alergologii · 2025Article
- Economic Burden of Alopecia Areata in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from a Societal Perspective: A Cost-of-Illness Analysis.Journal of health economics and outcomes research · 2025Article
- Awareness, Beliefs, and Psychological Impact of Patients with Alopecia Areata in Saudi Arabia: A Multi-Center Study.Patient preference and adherence · 2024Article
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Abstract
Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among patients diagnosed with AA at different hospitals. A total of 211 patients were included in the investigation between November 2021 and June 2022. The participants were subjected to a well-structured, Arabic-based, validated questionnaire. Results: More than half of the patients were men (54.0%) and single (50.7%). The most common age groups were 30 to 44 years (46.9%) and 18 to 29 years (36.0%). More than two-thirds of the participants (67.8%) had heard of AA before their diagnosis. Of these, the level of knowledge was low among 36.4%, medium among 42.0%, and high among 21.7%. Most of the patients believed that AA may be caused by genetic, nutritional, or health factors (77.3%) and that it is a serious health problem that necessitates treatment (64.0%). The most common psychological attributes caused by AA are feeling ashamed in front of other individuals (63.0%), anxiety (47.9%), and depression (36.0%). Conclusion: Our results show more than two-thirds of the participants were knowledgeable about AA. Most believed that the cause of AA is genetic, nutritional, or health factors and suffered negative psychological effects. According to our study, high levels of anxiety and depression are closely associated with AA patients, which affect their quality of life.
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