Thursday, September 29, 2011

The importance of stressful family events in psoriatic patients: a retrospective study

Abstract

Background  Psychosomatic stress events are believed to play an important role in psoriasis either by inducing or worsening the disease.


Objective  In this article, we compared the role of family stress events against other types of stress events on the psychological well being of patients and on their skin disease. We used our sample of psoriasis patients with said stress events.


Method  Patients underwent a dermatological examination which was evaluated through the PASI index. Simultaneously, they underwent interviews for psychological evaluations. The Hamilton scales were administered to assess anxiety and depression (Ham-A ...

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