Association of home light therapy with patient‐reported outcomes of vitiligo during the COVID‐19 pandemic: An Internet‐based survey

The pandemic of COVID‐19 has been reported globally. Preventive measures to slow down the pandemic and control the high incidence rates are mandatory. As a result, many non‐emergent healthcare services such as dermatology outpatient care were forced to shut down. To date, the literature is very limi...

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Published in:Photodermatology, Photoimmunology & Photomedicine Photoimmunology & Photomedicine, 2021-09, Vol.37 (5), p.425-427
Main Authors: Xu, Zhongyi, Jin, Shanglin, Dai, Xiaoxi, Xiang, Leihong F., Zhang, Chengfeng
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
coronavirus
COVID‐19
home light therapy
Letter to the Editor
Letters to the Editor
vitiligo
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Summary:The pandemic of COVID‐19 has been reported globally. Preventive measures to slow down the pandemic and control the high incidence rates are mandatory. As a result, many non‐emergent healthcare services such as dermatology outpatient care were forced to shut down. To date, the literature is very limited when it comes to the disease outcomes and psychological conditions of patients with vitiligo under the circumstances of the COVID‐19 pandemic. We speculated that during this period teledermatology1, 2, 3 and home light therapy such as Narrowband Ultraviolet B (NB‐UVB)4, 5 might have advantages over face‐to‐face outpatient visits for patients with vitiligo. Therefore, we initiated an internet‐based survey in order to investigate the associations of above behaviors with the patient‐reported outcomes of vitiligo in China between 23th January 2020 and 8th June 2020.
ISSN:0905-4383
1600-0781
DOI:10.1111/phpp.12675