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Depression Reduces the Effect of Phototherapy on the Psoriasis Patients
ISSN: 2687 - 5365
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Depression Reduces the Effect of Phototherapy on the Psoriasis Patients
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ICC-1702
Publisher: International Journal Of Academic Medicine And Pharmacy Ne..
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Abstract
The psychosomatic aspect of the psoriasis was always wondered and scrutinized. In many studies carried out before, it was showed that there was a meaningful relationship with psoriasis among depression, anxiety, and worriment. But, there was very few studies researching the possitive or negative effect of the pschologic stresses of the patients. In this study, we researched whether depression, hopelessness, worriment and anxiety have the negative effect to the examination, or not. 50 psoriasis patients receiving the narrow-band UVB (NB-UVB) phototherapy were included to the study. The severity of disease, pre-treatment, and following 20 seans were reckoned by being used the Psoriasis Area Severity Index (PASI). Morever, the patiens were evaluated in terms of depression, hopelessness, worriment and anxiety by being used the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) and Hospita...
