Assessment of prescribing pattern and quality of life of dermatology patients by using dermatology quality life index

Sangeetha, T.; Raghu, M T; Nataraj, G R; Kumar, Varun; Krishna, Y. Satya; Johnson, J Fibin; Manikanta, V. Sravan

doi:10.18203/issn.2455-4529.intjresdermatol20172210

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“…QoL. This finding is similar to that obtained in another study carried out by Sangeetha T et al9 in India, as well as in other countries by Al-Hoqail IA et al10 , and Tejada CD et al11 with scores ranging from 6.73 to 8.32.This study found higher mean DLQI scores for patients who were younger in age, probably because, younger individuals were more frequently affected by physical symptoms like itching and pain along with embarrassment caused by skin lesions at their school and work. This finding was consistent with Mean scores in different Domains of DLQI questionnaire…”

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Assessment of Quality of Life in Patients Reporting with Dermatological Conditions to a Primary Healthcare Setting in Goa, India.

Arulprakash¹,

D'souza²

2019

IJCMR

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Introduction: Patients reporting with skin ailments to primary healthcare settings are often referred to specialty centres either due to uncertainty in diagnosing skin conditions by the healthcare professionals or because of incomplete treatment offered to the patients at this level of healthcare. Objectives: 1.To assess the quality of life among adults reporting with skin diseases to a Primary healthcare setting. 2.To identify the types of skin diseases that required referral to specialty clinics. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted at an Urban Health Centre in Goa between July 2018 and September 2018 among 150 consenting patients aged 18 years and above reporting with skin ailments. Data were collected by administering a pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire and the Quality of Life was assessed using the Dermatology Life Quality Index. Data was summarised using frequencies and percentages for demographic characteristics, The DLQI was scored as per the method recommended by the developers. Chi-Square test was used to determine the association among study variables. A P<0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Mean DLQI score in this study was 6.67 ± 4.147 indicating a small to moderate effect of skin diseases on patient's QoL. Mean DLQI score of Symptoms/Feelings domain was 2.94 ± 1.475 out of a maximum score of six, followed by domains like Daily activities (1.12 ± 1.197) and Work/School (1.06 ± 1.148) respectively. Conclusion: A small to moderate impact on QoL was observed among patients with skin conditions. This study suggests a need for special training in the management of common skin diseases for healthcare professionals at primary healthcare settings, at the same time adding the necessary medications used for the treatment of these common skin conditions to the inventory of essential drugs maintained at this level of healthcare.

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Assessment of Quality of Life in Patients Reporting with Dermatological Conditions to a Primary Healthcare Setting in Goa, India.

Arulprakash¹,

D'souza²

2019

IJCMR

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“…Irrational drug combinations, over use of multivitamins, emollients, unnecessary use of antibacterial in fungal infections and prescribing drug from same class led to the unnecessary skin diseases. 7…”

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Assessment of Drug use Practices among Patients Visiting Outpatient Department of Dermatology at a Hospital in Pokhara, Nepal.

Bhandari

Khan

2020

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Introduction: Skin is the part of an integumentary system that constitutes the largest organ of the human body and thus it is exposed to injury by various extrinsic factors such as environmental, chemical, infectious agents as well as intrinsic factors such as metabolic, genetic and immunological. These are the major contributors to disease burden in society. The goal of the study was to assess the current drug use practices and pattern of skin diseases among the patients visiting the outpatient department of dermatology at a Green Pastures Hospital in Pokhara, Nepal. Methods: A prospective observational study was conducted in an outpatient pharmacy over a period of three months by clinical pharmacists. Patient data collection forms were the tools used to collect data. Results: A total of 246 patients were included where 135 were females and 111 were males. The most common skin disease seen in the age group of 19-29 (39.4%). The major skin disease seen in the study were Tinea skin infections (21.1%), Urticaria (11.8%), Eczema (11.1%), Dermatitis (10.6%) followed by Acne (8.1%) and so on. Antihistamines (33.38%), Antifungals (30.03%), Corticosteroids (27.1%) were majorly prescribed drugs. The average number of drug prescriptions per encounter was 2.66. Drugs prescribed by their generic name were 11.2% and those prescribed from the National essential medicines list of Nepal were 22.4% and those prescribed from WHO list of essential medicines was 21.6%. Conclusion: Overall analysis of the drug showed, the most common route of the prescribed drug was topical followed by oral. In this study, generic prescribing of the drug was low compared with a brand prescription. WHO core drug use indicators have been used in the present study as a measure of performance of drug usage. The prescription audit can be an eye-opener and therefore it should be done periodically to rationalize the prescription, reduce error and suggest cost-effective management.

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“…Nowadays, green addition agents are popularly used as additional agents in the electrodeposition process. Felicita et al [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] used several novel green extracts normally containing carbonyl compounds as major component as additives. The present work aims to study the effect of Ananas comosus juice on nickel electrodeposition.…”

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Nanocrystalline Nickel Electrodeposition on Carbon Steel Using Eco-Friendly Aqueous Ananas comosus Juice

Florence¹,

Lavanya²,

Joice³

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Asian J. Chem.

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The present study aims to investigate the effect of Ananas comosus juice on nickel electrodeposition on mild steel. The effect of this additive on electrodeposition behaviour, bath composition, surface morphology and corrosion performance of the nickel electrodeposited mild steel were investigated. The bath constitutents are optimized through Hull cell experiments. To investigate the nature of the deposits, FT-IR, scanning electron microscopy, EDAX, XRD and electrochemical methods are applied. Current efficiency and polarization studies were carried out. The results confirmed the influence of Ananas comosus juice on nickel electrodeposition.

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Assessment of prescribing pattern and quality of life of dermatology patients by using dermatology quality life index

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Assessment of Quality of Life in Patients Reporting with Dermatological Conditions to a Primary Healthcare Setting in Goa, India.

Assessment of Quality of Life in Patients Reporting with Dermatological Conditions to a Primary Healthcare Setting in Goa, India.

Assessment of Drug use Practices among Patients Visiting Outpatient Department of Dermatology at a Hospital in Pokhara, Nepal.

Nanocrystalline Nickel Electrodeposition on Carbon Steel Using Eco-Friendly Aqueous Ananas comosus Juice

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