Impact on quality of life in patients with dermatophytosis

Mushtaq, Sabha; Faizi, Nafis; Amin, Syed Suhail; Adil, Mohammad; Mohtashim, Mohammad

doi:10.1111/ajd.13191

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“…Both age and body surface area had a significant impact on patients’ quality of life (QoL) ( p ≤ 0.05). Mushtaq et al [ 64 ] also proved that the DLQI score may be influenced by the severity of the disease.…”

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Tinea Gladiatorum: Epidemiology, Clinical Aspects, and Management

Zalewski

Goldust

Szepietowski

2022

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Tinea gladiatorum (TG) is a fungal skin infection that occurs among wrestlers and other contact sport athletes with a varied prevalence rate. The most common causative factor responsible as well for local outbreaks of the infection is an anthropophilic dermatophyte species—Trichophyton tonsurans (T. tonsurans). The purpose of this study was to gather current data about TG, including epidemiology, possible diagnosing methods, clinical features, treatment approaches, and potential prevention techniques. We also performed a systematic review of studies describing TG incidence. The prevalence of the disease varied from 2.4% up to 100%. That wide range of variability forces medical practitioners to update knowledge about TG and points to the fact that it still may be a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. Spreading awareness among athletes and trainers is one of the most important preventive steps.

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Tinea Gladiatorum: Epidemiology, Clinical Aspects, and Management

Zalewski

Goldust

Szepietowski

2022

JCM

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“…While in the study done by S Mushtaq et al homemakers were maximum. This can be explained as tinea is aggravated in a hot and humid environment [24][25][26].…”

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The Social and Psychological Impact of Superficial Dermatophytic Infection using Dlqi and Ghq-12: A Cross-Sectional Study in 174 Patients at a Tertiary Care Centre in Southern-East Rajasthan

Saini¹,

Shail²,

Jain³

et al. 2021

J Dermatol Res Rev Rep

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Background: Dermatophytosis is a common fungal infection affecting 20-25% of the world population. Aims: Our study was aimed to assess its impact on health-related quality of life(QoL), mental health, and various variables. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was done from April 2019 to September 2019 on 174 patients of dermatophytosis of aged more than 16 years with their informed consent. The impact of infection on the quality of life was assessed by using the Dermatology life quality index questionnaire and General health questionnaire-12 was used to assess psychological impact. A visual analogue scale was used to assess the severity of pruritus. Appropriate statistical tests were applied. Results: Males to females ratio was 1.4:1. The age group of 21-30 was having the highest number of patients with the mean age of 27.8±9.97. Most patients had BSA under 10%. The mean value of DLQI and GHQ-12 were found 15.989±7.407 and 2.8563±2.8964, respectively. We found that dermatophytosis had a very large effect on the quality of life as the maximum number of patients(39%) were within this category. The “work and school” part in the questionnaire gained maximum importance(52.8%). The mean VAS score was 6±2.733 with most patients(32.7%) had moderate itching. We found a positive correlation between VAS and DLQI, VAS and GHQ-12, DLQI, and GHQ-12 with the statistical significance. Conclusion: In our study dermatophytosis affected the quality of life as well as the psychological health of patients. Therefore proper treatment of superficial dermatophtytosis is essential to prevent it from further complications

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“…Again these findings are similar to the study by Patro et al 8 However, Drake et al stated that severity and quality of life are two separate and different measurements that often do not overlap. 25 There are no other studies presently to assess the QoL in patients having chronic dermatophytosis but in a study by Mushtaq et al, 26 it has been reported that increase in duration of tinea infection increases DLQI score. Worldwide there are studies describing DLQI in cutaneous fungal infections, mainly onychomycosis, but none for chronic dermatophytosis.…”

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Quality Of Life In Patients With Chronic Dermatophytosis

Varshney

Gahalaut

Pardal

et al. 2020

Nepal J Dermatol Venereol & Leprol

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Introduction: The term “chronic dermatophytosis” can be described as patients who have suffered tinea infections for more than 6 months, with or without recurrence. Since last few years we are facing an onslaught of chronic and recurrent dermatophytosis. These infections are increasingly becoming debilitating with severe symptoms like itching and increasingly showing lack of response to traditional treatment, hence it has become utmost important to assess impact of dermatophytosis today on quality of life of patients. Objectives: To determine quality of life in patients with chronic dermatophytosis using Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI). Materials and Methods: Adult literate patients having chronic dermatophytosis which was confirmed by KOH mount were included in the study. History, clinical features and other relevant details were included in a proforma. All patients were asked to fill DLQI questionnaire in Hindi. Controls having disease for less than six months were also included. Data thus obtained was collected and tabulated. The data was analysed using SPSS software and relevant statistical tests were used. Results: Total number of cases collected were 263, 137 controls were also included. In gender distribution, cases had 71.86% males and 28.14% female while controls had 63.5% males and 36.5% females. Mean DLQI of cases was 14.28+/-5.16 and controls was 11.56+/-3.60. DLQI distribution of cases -162(61.6%) had very large effect, 64(24.33%) had moderate effect, and 32(12.17%) had extremely large effect on DLQI. Domains of Symptoms and feelings (72.67%), work and school related activities (69%) and treatment related problems (67.67%) posed maximum impairment. Quality of life derangement increased significantly with presence of lesions on both exposed and non exposed sites and increase in body surface area. Conclusion: While superficial dermatophytosis affects quality of life (QoL) in all patients, chronic dermatophytosis has a significantly more derogatory effect on the QoL of a person with some of the patient also showing extremely large effect on QoL.

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Impact on quality of life in patients with dermatophytosis

Cited by 25 publications

References 11 publications

Tinea Gladiatorum: Epidemiology, Clinical Aspects, and Management

Tinea Gladiatorum: Epidemiology, Clinical Aspects, and Management

The Social and Psychological Impact of Superficial Dermatophytic Infection using Dlqi and Ghq-12: A Cross-Sectional Study in 174 Patients at a Tertiary Care Centre in Southern-East Rajasthan

Quality Of Life In Patients With Chronic Dermatophytosis

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