| dc.description.abstract | Background: Quality of Life (QoL) is a term which involves many issues, including social well-
being, health farnily and psychosocial relationship. Skin besides has physio-anatomical
firnctions, also has psychosocial fi:nctions. Pigmentary disorders are skin diseases that can
impact one's mental emotional conditions.
Objective; To know the relationship hetween quality of life and pigmentary disorders on
patients with pigmentary disorders.
Methods: An analytic descriptive study with cross sectional desigrl was done in July 2009 mtil
October 2009. Subjects of this study were patients who were diagnosed clinically with
pigmentarT disorders > 18 years old who fullfilled the inclusion criteria. Data were collected
include age, gender, marital status, educational level, occupatioru ethnicity, duration of disease,
localization of disease, complain! diagnosis, sum total types of pigrnenlary disorders,
psychological and physical impact, and the total scores of DLQI (Dermatology Life Quality
Index) questionnai re. Dala were processed using the Mann-Whitney test, Kruskall-Wallis test
and correlation test of Spearman.
Results: Subjects of study which consisted of 112 patients with pigrnentary disorders within
range ofage 18-74 years old. The most of participants were among those aged 34-41 years old
(19,60/o), female (81,3%), married (65,27q), moderate educational level (44,6%), occupation as
independent workers, labors, or farmers (21,470), 68,8% ethic distribution was Batak' had
suffered pigrnentary disorders during l-5 years (43,8Yo), the most frequent location was face
(62,5V,), 58,0% participants complain about pigpentary disorders. The most prevalent
pignrentary disorder was melasma (60,70/o), and most of patients only had single type of
pigmentary disorder Q7,7W. The level of psyohologioal and physical impact on patients due to
pigmentary disorders were observed that most patients were bothered enough by their
pigmentary abnormalities to ask about treatment (44,6%), followed by patients who no concem
shown (41,1%). There were statistically significant differences between mean DLQI scores
among pigmentary disorders group based on age, marital status, occupation, duration of disease,
localization of disease, diagnosis, complaint, and psychological and physical impact. The
correlation between variable DLQI score and age was moderate, but correlation between variable
DLQI score and dumtion of diseases was weak. Both with negative correlation value.
Conclusions: There were sigrrificant relationships between quality of life and age, marital status,
occupation, dumtion of disease, localization of disease, diagrr.osis, complaint, and psychological
and physical impact and there were correlation between quality of life and age and duration of
disease on patients with pignentary disorders. | en_US |
