Job change facilitates healing in a cohort of patients with occupational hand eczema

The British Journal of Dermatology
Tanja K CarøeT Agner

Abstract

Occupational hand eczema is a frequent and often chronic disease and knowledge of the consequences of change of profession is sparse. To compare severity of hand eczema and health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) in patients who after 5 years were still in the same profession and those who were not. The study is a register-based cohort study including patients with recognized occupational hand eczema in Denmark in 2010 and 2011. Outcomes were eczema-related parameters and Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) scores obtained from a follow-up questionnaire after 5 years. A total of 1496 participants were included in the study. More participants who changed profession or left the labour market reported complete healing of hand eczema at follow-up, compared with participants still in the same profession [odds ratio (OR) 1·62, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1·06-2·47 and OR 2·85, 95% CI 1·83-4·42, respectively], in addition to increased improvement at follow-up (OR 1·91, 95% CI 1·44-2·54 and OR 1·51, 95% CI 1·09-2·10, respectively). However, DLQI scores for participants who changed profession or left the labour market had increased at follow-up [incidence rate ratio (IRR) 1·12 (95% CI 0·98-1·28 and IRR 1·29, 95% CI 1·11-1·51, respect...Continue Reading

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