[Sexual Self-esteem in Trans*People: Development of a New Questionnaire and Clinical Evaluation].

Aim Of The Study: Our purpose was to develop a new instrument for the assessment of sexual self-esteem in German and to examine its psychometric properties. Subsequently, we aimed to investigate sexual self-esteem in trans*people.

Methods: The construction and validation of the sexual self-esteem scale was realized in a sample of the general population (N=426; Study 1, online) based on confirmatory factor analysis and statistical item analysis.

Effects of structured patient education in adults with atopic dermatitis: Multicenter randomized controlled trial.

Background: Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic relapsing skin disease prevalent in 1% to 3% of adults in Western industrialized countries.

Objective: We sought to investigate the effectiveness of educational training in an outpatient setting on coping with the disease, quality of life, symptoms, and severity in adults with AD.

Methods: In this German prospective, randomized controlled multicenter study, adult patients with moderate-to-severe AD were educated by referring to a comprehensive 12-hour training manual consented by a multiprofessional study group from different centers (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Neurodermitisschulung für Erwachsene [ARNE]).

Association of pain level, health and wound status in patients with chronic leg ulcers.

Pain is a ubiquitous problem in patients with chronic leg wounds. The pain may be caused by the underlying pathology of the leg ulceration, the wound, wound treatment, or complications such as skin irritation around the ulcer. The objectives of this research were to evaluate the level of suffering endured by patients because of their ulcer-related pain, and to evaluate whether and how this pain is treated.

[The association of unwanted drug effects and increased psychovegetative lability].

Objective: Based on a history of unwanted drug effects, patients had to undergo a series of exposure tests to identify alternative non-invasive drugs. In our study we examined if psychosomatic factors (in the sense of psychovegetative lability) occurred more frequently in patients with unwanted drug effects.

Methods: For this purpose, 91 patients filled out a series of questionnaires for the assessment of mental factors.