PMID: 15235182Jul 6, 2004Paper

Psychological disturbances in Indian children with atopic eczema

The Journal of Dermatology
Rashmi SarkarRakesh Kumar Jain

Abstract

Although the link between atopic dermatitis (AD) and emotional disturbance is well known, there have been only a few studies assessing the extent of these disturbances in affected children and the problems experienced by their parents. Furthermore, these studies are mostly from western countries, where atopic dermatitis is seen in a more severe form than in India. The purpose of this study was to determine whether there is an excess of psychological disorders in Indian children with AD as compared to healthy controls and whether their mothers showed higher levels of emotional or mental distress than a comparison group. Twenty-two children, aged 3-9 years, with atopic dermatitis, twenty age and sex matched controls, and their mothers were selected for the study. The personalities of the mothers were assessed from a standard and valid questionnaire, the Hindi adaptation of Personality Trait Inventory, which explored nine areas of the maternal personality and mental distress as well as negative traits of some of these. The two groups were compared using the Chi-square test. To assess the psychopathology of the children, the mothers were made to answer parts of a valid, well-developed questionnaire, the Childhood Psychopathology Me...Continue Reading

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