Stigmatization and self-perception in children with atopic dermatitis

Figures & data

Table 1 How AD affects children’s friendships, self-consciousness, and social life and leads to teasing and bullying according to the CDLQI results (each CDLQI question is answered on a four-point Likert scale scored from 0 to 3⁴⁵) in different studies.^12,46–52

CDLQI items	Singapore^Citation12	Czech Republic^Citation12	Italy^Citation12	Ukraine^Citation12	UK^Citation46	Malaysia^Citation47	UK^Citation48	Sweden^Citation49	Korea^Citation50	Turkey^Citation51	Iran^Citation52
How embarrassed or self-conscious, upset, or sad have you been because of your skin?	0.89±0.87	1.18±0.98	0.66±0.94	1.23±1.10	1.2a	1.1a	0.4a	0.86± 0.93	0.9±0.9	1.00±1.03	2.4a
How much has your skin affected your friendships?	0.57±0.65	0.30±0.65	0.26±0.60	0.80±0.95	0.3a	0.8a	0.2a	NA	0.5±0.8	0.58±0.83	2.7a
How much has your skin trouble affected going out, playing, or doing hobbies?	1.06±1.00	0.72±0.95	0.24±0.71	1.16±1.06	0.8a	1.0a	0.5a	NA	0.6±0.8	0.56±0.78	2.4a
How much trouble have you had because of your skin with other people calling you names, teasing, bullying, asking questions, or avoiding you?	1.17±0.87	0.44±0.64	0.32±0.77	0.95±0.91	0.3a	1.6a	0.3a	NA	0.4±0.7	0.16±0.54	2.2a

Note:

a Numeric data were adopted from figure and are approximate values. Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation.

Abbreviations: AD, atopic dermatitis; CDLQI, Children Dermatology Life Quality Index; NA, not available.

Table 2 The impact of AD on the mood of young children according to the IDQoL results (each IDQoL question is answered on a four-point Likert scale scored from 0 to 3⁵⁷) from different studies49,57,58,60,67,76–78

Country	Impact of AD on child’s mood
UK^Citation57	1.10±0.99
Sweden^Citation49	1.00± 0.86
Saudi Arabia^Citation76	1.84±0.65
Serbia^Citation77	1.93±0.82
Finland^Citation78	0.3a
The Netherlands^Citation58	0.51±0.65
Brazil^Citation58	1.07±0.70
Korea^Citation58	1.02±0.90
Czech Republic^Citation67	0.7a
Ukraine^Citation60	0.85±0.49

Note:

a Numeric data were adopted from figure and are approximate values.

Abbreviations: AD, atopic dermatitis; IDQoL, Infants’ Dermatitis Quality of Life Index.

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