The Pattern of Skin & Venereal disorders among patients attending in the OPD of Dermatology & Venereology Department of a tertiary care private hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Abstract

Background :It is generally agreed that pattern of skin & venereal diseases differ in different countries and within various regions of a country depending upon social, economic , racial & environmental factor. The morbidity associated with skin and venereal diseases makes them an important public health problem. Very scanty literature is found on the problem which is either disease based, community based or specified population group based. Objective : To assess the pattern of skin and venereal diseases in patients in urban Bangladesh and to determine their relation with demographic character. Materials and method: It is a descriptive study conducted at dermatology and venereology OPD in Ibn Sina Medical College Hospital, Dhaka for the period from 1 st January, 2015 to 31 st December 2015. Six thousand and two hundred and three patients were enrolled during the study period. The study population comprised of newly diagnosed cases as well as relapsing cases presenting in the outpatient irrespective of gender and age. Diagnosis was made on clinical basis. Lab investigations were restricted to the cases where it carried diagnostic importance. The data was collected through pre-designed questionnaire and analyzed through Microsoft SPSS. Results: Study was conducted on 6203 patients comprising 3373 (54.38%) males and 2830 (45.62%) females, who attended skin and VD OPD of Ibn Sina Medical College during the period of one year. Males were found to be most commonly affected. Male female ratio is 1.2 : 1. Age group between 15 to 29 years carried maximum incidence (43.79%). All disorders were broadly classified into noninfective (63.5%), infective (20.2%) and miscellaneous dermatoses (16.2%) . Eczema 1721 (27.7%) and fungal infections 694 (11.2%) came out to be the two top most common cause for OPD attendances.Conclusion: Our study found a higher prevalence of non-infective dermatoses than infective dermatoses. Eczema and fungal infections formed the largest group in their respective categories.

Psychiatric Morbidity Among Dermatological Patients Attending a Tertiary Care Hospital in Central India

“…From the study of Alam, Husain and Quarashi, (2017) it was revealed that 16.2% of patients had total burden of miscellaneous Dermatoses, Eczema (27.7%) And Fungal Infections (11.2%). 9 In the study of Ahmed et al majority of the subjects had acne vulgaris (29.5%), followed by atopic dermatitis (22.3%), vitiligo (20.7%) and psoriasis (6.4%); the remainder had other diseases such as alopecia areata, lichen planus or warts. Reported a prevalence of depression of 18% in 50 Alopecia patients and a prevalence of anxiety of 4%.…”

“…Association between socio-demographic factors with depression, anxiety, stress found significant association between gender in all studied psychiatric variables. The study of Alam et al (2017) 9 found about half (45.6%) of the patients were females and found to had higher proportion of depression as 27.8%, anxiety as 16.70% and stress as 16.70% while for males' depression observed among 5.1%, anxiety as 17.40% and stress as 1.40% respectively. Wessley et.…”

The Global Prevalence of Seborrheic Dermatitis

“…Our analysis included 121 studies to calculate the pooled global prevalence of seborrheic dermatitis. These studies encompassed 1 260 163 participants with clinician-diagnosed seborrheic dermatitis, uncovering an overall pooled prevalence of 4.38% (95% CI, 3.58%-5.17%) with an IQR of 1.55% to 5.45%, alongside significant statistical heterogeneity ( I 2 = 99.94%; df = 120; Q = 38 414.25) (Table, Figure 2, Figure 3). Sensitivity analyses confirmed the stability of this prevalence estimate, showing minimal variation in the sequential exclusion of individual studies.…”

Frequency of Skin Diseases and its Associated Factors Among Patients Visiting a Dermatology Clinic

“…Furthermore, the frequency of atopic dermatitis was found to be 4.1% in this study. Alam MN et al, in 2017 though reported it to be 12.4% 21 . In both instances, these differences in results could be attributed to the differences in sample sizes and study settings as both of the later studies were conducted with larger sample sizes and in tertiary care hospitals with potentially different referral patterns.…”

“…In our study the frequency of dermatitis was found to be 23.3%. Tameez-Ud-Din BA et al, in 2010 reported the frequency of dermatitis to be 13.9% 13 while Alam MN et al, in 2017 reported the frequency of dermatitis to be only 5.4% among patients attending dermatology OPD 21 . Furthermore, the frequency of atopic dermatitis was found to be 4.1% in this study.…”