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- The study explored how psychosocial factors like social support, emotional distress, and body image affect depressive symptoms in psoriasis patients, focusing on gender differences.
- 219 psoriasis patients completed various assessments, revealing that female patients were more affected by beliefs about appearance, psychological distress, and low emotional support.
- The findings suggest that enhancing body image and reducing its impact on self-worth could help prevent depression, especially among women with psoriasis.
Article Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine the importance of psychosocial factors, such as emotional and instrumental social support, distress, and assumptions about appearance and its salience to one's self-worth, and to relate these factors to depressive symptoms in patients with psoriasis, according to gender. A group of 219 patients with psoriasis, aged 18-70 years completed the Beck Depression Inventory, the Appearance Schemas Inventory-Revised, the Berlin Social Support Scales, and the Distress Thermometer. Body Surface Area index was used to assess the severity of psoriasis. The main contributors to depression were: female gender, beliefs about appearance and its salience to one's self-worth, greater psychological distress, and lower levels of emotional social support. Therefore, improving the body image of patients with psoriasis, by reducing its salience in their personal lives, may play a role in the prevention of depression, especially in women.
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