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Prevalence and psychological impact of Acne vulgaris among female secondary school students in Arar city, Saudi Arabia, in 2018

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Alanazi, Manal Saeed Hammad, Sabry Mohamed Mohamed, Amal Elwan
Copyright Year	2018
Abstract	Background Acne vulgaris is a common heath problem affecting adolescents with considerable impact on their quality of life. Objective To determine the prevalence of Acne vulgaris and its psychological impact among female secondary school students. Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted during the period from January to March 2018, among all female secondary school students in 3 randomly selected schools, in Arar city (Saudi Arabia). The participants were clinically examined by a dermatologist to identify acne cases. Dermatological quality of life of acne cases were assessed using an Arabic version of Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI). Data collected were analyzed by IBM-SPSS version 20, using Chi-square, Fisher's Exact test, Mann-Whitney U, and Kruskal Wallis test. P-value ≤0.05 was considered statically significant. Results The overall prevalence of Acne vulgaris was 14.3%. It was not significantly affected by age, marital status or nationality of participants. Post inflammatory hyper-pigmentation and scarring were detected in 11.6% and 8.7% respectively. Twenty nine percent of the cases had no impact; 56.3% had small to moderate impact and 14.5% had large effect. The psychological impact was significantly increased with increased severity, presence of acne lesions on face and other sites, presence of hyper pigmentation and scarring (p=0.001). Conclusion Acne vulgaris had large impact on quality of life in 14.5% of cases. Students should be counseled and educated on how to deal with this dermatological problem.
Starting Page	7224
Ending Page	7229
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.19082/7224
PubMed reference number	30214705
Journal	Medline
Volume Number	10
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/b9/ed/epj-10-7224.PMC6122864.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.19082/7224
Journal	Electronic physician
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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