Chronic Urticaria and Its Impact on the Quality of Life of Nepalese Patients

Chronic urticaria (CU) is a skin condition characterized by sudden and recurrent episodes of wheals, angioedema, or both and commonly associated with itching for a duration of more than six weeks. The available data indicate that urticaria markedly affects both objective functioning and subjective w...

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Published in:Dermatology research and practice 2020, Vol.2020 (2020), p.1-5
Main Authors: Dahal, Sudip, Sharma, Rabindra Prasad, Parajuli, Niraj, Paudel, Sushil, Paudel, Sudarshan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age groups
Analysis
Angioedema
Cardiovascular disease
Chronic illnesses
Dermatology
Factor analysis
Leisure
Mens health
Patients
Personal relationships
Population studies
Principal components analysis
Pruritus
Quality of life
Skin diseases
Urticaria
Well being
Womens health
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Summary:Chronic urticaria (CU) is a skin condition characterized by sudden and recurrent episodes of wheals, angioedema, or both and commonly associated with itching for a duration of more than six weeks. The available data indicate that urticaria markedly affects both objective functioning and subjective well-being of patients. A review of patients’ records with chronic urticaria attending Civil Service Hospital from January 2018 to December 2019 was done. A detailed demographic data of all patients with chronic urticaria was also retrieved. Dermatology Life Quality Index questionnaire (DLQI) Nepalese version was used for the assessment of the impact of disease on life quality. Mann–Whitney U-test was applied to compare means, and principle component analysis for factor analysis was used. A total of 149 patients were included, with a male-to-female ratio of 1 : 1.9. The mean age of the study population was 32.86 ± 12.837 years. The mean DLQI score was 8.30 ± 6.73 with men having a significantly greater score than women (p
ISSN:1687-6105
1687-6113
DOI:10.1155/2020/6694191