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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2023

Gender differences in vitiligo: psychological symptoms and quality of life assessment description.

Tonia Samela, Walter Malorni, Paola Matarrese, Gianfranco Mattia, Stefania Alfani, Damiano Abeni

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Tonia SamelaClinical Psychology Unit, Istituto Dermopatico Dell'Immacolata, (IDI) IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Walter MalorniCenter for Global Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
Paola MatarreseCenter for Gender-Specific Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy.
Gianfranco MattiaCenter for Gender-Specific Medicine, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy.
Stefania AlfaniClinical Epidemiology Unit, Istituto Dermopatico Dell'Immacolata, (IDI) IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Damiano AbeniClinical Epidemiology Unit, Istituto Dermopatico Dell'Immacolata, (IDI) IRCCS, Rome, Italy.
Istituto Dermopatico dell'Immacolata · ITIstituto Superiore di Sanità · ITUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective: Assuming that the difference exist in the manifestation of psychological suffering among genders, the purpose of this review is to summarize the current knowledge on gender differences in vitiligo quality of life and psychological assessment. Methods: We searched in PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science databases for original articles in English language. Results were screened according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA checklist). Results: The study yielded 107 results; 12 articles have been evaluated as eligible. Each eligible study has been screened and analyzed. The study's qualitative evaluation revealed that 8 papers were classifiable as satisfactory, 4 were classifiable as unsatisfactory. The agreement between the coders was high (% agreement = 84.6%; Cohen's kappa = 0.79). All considered researches (100%) were cross-sectional studies, based on self-report questionnaires. From our analysis, women with vitiligo had a higher risk to experience lower quality of life, and worse mental health in a wide range of psychopathology symptoms than men. A wide heterogeneity of tools is used to investigate the quality of life and psychological symptoms among these patients. Conclusion: Unfortunately, there are few explanatory models proposed in the literature to rationalize these findings. It will be important to investigate in further researches the specific influence of known risk factors for psychopathology in this population to better explore these phenomena.

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gender differencesliterature reviewpsycho-dermatologypsychology assessmentquality of life assessmentskin diseasevitiligo

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PMID38187434
PMCPMC10769495
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