Medical and psychosocial outcome of patients with occupational contact dermatitis in Israel

Abstract

Considerable working time is lost because of unemployment or sick leave due to OCD. Only a small proportion of eligible patients with OCD apply for disability compensation and an even smaller proportion receive it. Our study demonstrates the significance of OCD to the psychosocial aspects of workers' lives and emphasizes that the assessment of OCD outcome should relate not only to the medical but also to the psychosocial aspect of the disease.

A Review of the Impact of Occupational Contact Dermatitis on Quality of Life

“…One study reported a small effect of OCD on QoL [39], three found a moderate effect [29, 33, 36], and one reported a large effect on QoL [32]. The most affected domains in the DLQI were symptoms and feelings [29, 30, 33, 36, 39] and work [29, 32, 33, 35]. The large variation may relate to different methods of patient selection, such as from referral clinics and workplaces, and duration of followup.…”

“…Seven were follow-up studies [29, 31, 32, 34–36, 39], of which five were performed retrospectively [29, 31, 34, 35, 39], while four studies were cross-sectional [30, 33, 37, 38]. The study participants were either recruited from dermatology clinics [29–33, 35, 39] or national registries [34, 36–38] and the study samples ranged in size from 36 to 560 people. Although the participants in all studies had a clinical diagnosis made at first contact, in only 8 studies were further investigations done to confirm the clinical diagnosis [30–32, 34–37, 39].…”

“…Although the participants in all studies had a clinical diagnosis made at first contact, in only 8 studies were further investigations done to confirm the clinical diagnosis [30–32, 34–37, 39]. Seven of the 11 studies reviewed reported the percentage of participants with atopy, with the figure ranging from 7.1% to 92.4% of the study participants [30, 31, 34, 35, 37–39]. Five studies used the SF-36 or part thereof [29, 33, 37–39], seven used the DLQI [29, 30, 32, 33, 35, 36, 39], and three used the Skindex questionnaire [31, 37, 38].…”

“…Seven of the 11 studies reviewed reported the percentage of participants with atopy, with the figure ranging from 7.1% to 92.4% of the study participants [30, 31, 34, 35, 37–39]. Five studies used the SF-36 or part thereof [29, 33, 37–39], seven used the DLQI [29, 30, 32, 33, 35, 36, 39], and three used the Skindex questionnaire [31, 37, 38]. Eight studies used the combination of a dermatology-specific instrument and either a commonly used generic instrument or a self-developed questionnaire [29–31, 33, 35, 37–39].…”

Does contact dermatitis to fragrances influence the quality of life? A descriptive study measuring and comparing the quality of life and skin involvement in patients with contact dermatitis to fragrances

“…[3][4][5] The outcome of studies on quality of life in patients suffering from contact dermatitis allows a better understanding of the magnitude, complexity and severity of the problem of contact dermatitis and points out the need for preventive measures and adapted assistance.…”