"The psychosocial burden of alopecia areata and androgenetica": A cross-sectional multicenter study among dermatological out-patients in 13 European Countries

Titeca, Geraldine, Goudetsidis, Laetitia, Francq, Bernard, Sampogna, Francesca, Gieler, Uwe, Tomas-Aragones, Lucia, Lien, Lars, Jemec, Gregor B. E, Misery, Laurent, Szabo, Csanad, Linder, Dennis, Evers, Andrea W. M, Halvorsen, Jon Anders, Balieva, Flora, Szepietowski, Jacek, Romanov, Dmitry, Marron, Servando E, Altunay, Ilknur K, Finlay, Andrew Y ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2143-1646, Salek, Sam S, Kupfer, Jörg, Dalgard, Florence J and Poot, Françoise 2020. "The psychosocial burden of alopecia areata and androgenetica": A cross-sectional multicenter study among dermatological out-patients in 13 European Countries. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology 34 (2) , pp. 406-411. 10.1111/jdv.15927

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Abstract

Background Hair diseases place an important burden on patients’ lives, causing significant emotional and psychosocial distress. However, the impairment due to different hair conditions, such as alopecia areata (AA) and androgenetic alopecia (AGA), has rarely been compared. Objective The aim of this study was to assess the psychological burden of sub‐groups of patients with different hair diseases and to compare them to a healthy population. Methods In this study we analyzed a subgroup of patients with hair diseases from patients of a large multicenter study including 3635 dermatological patients and 1359 controls from 13 European countries. In the sub‐group of patients with hair diseases, we analyzed the sociodemographic characteristics, the stress level, and the impact of hair diseases on quality of life (QoL), anxiety, and depression and we compared them among patients with AA, AGA, and healthy controls. Results The study population included 115 patients (77% women, 23% men) with hair diseases, 37 of whom with AA and 20 with AGA. Patients with hair diseases had a lower education level than healthy controls (medium educational level: 43% vs 28%). Overall, 41% of the patients reported stressful life events during the last 6 months compared with 31% of the controls. Patients with the same age, sex, depression level and comorbidities had a worse QoL when suffering from AA than from AGA (Mean DLQI score: 5,8 vs 2,5). Conclusion Patients with hair diseases are more anxious, depressed and have a lower QoL than controls.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	0926-9959
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	24 September 2019
Date of Acceptance:	31 July 2019
Last Modified:	13 Nov 2024 22:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/125614

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