Research Article
Quality of Life in Patients with Psoriasis Seen in the Department of Dermatology, Antananarivo, Madagascar
Table 1
Distribution of participants via the DLQI score according to the sociodemographic and clinical data.
| | Patients with DLQI≤10 (%) | Patients with DLQI>10 (%) | |
| | Age | | | | | ≤37 years () | 17 (37) | 29 (63) | 0.015 | | >37 years () | 21 (62) | 13 (38) | | | Gender | | | | | Male () | 21 (44) | 27 (56) | 0.21 | | Female () | 17 (53) | 15 (47) | | | Educational status | | | | | Elementary school () | 7 (47) | 8 (53) | | | Secondary school () | 8 (20) | 33 (80) | 0.03 | | University () | 11 (46) | 13 (54) | | | Marital status | | | | | Single () | 9 (27) | 24 (73) | | | Married () | 25 (58) | 18 (42) | 0.008 | | Divorced () | 1 (100) | 0 (0) | | | Widower () | 3 (100) | 0 (0) | | | Occupation | | | | | Students () | 4 (18) | 18 (82) | 0.002 | | Employees () | 33 (57) | 25 (43) | | | Duration of disease (years) | | | | | ≤ 1 () | 22 (55) | 18 (45) | | | [1-5] () | 12 (46) | 14 (54) | 0.36 | | [5-10] () | 1 (20) | 4 (80) | | | > 10 () | 3 (33) | 6 (67) | | | Clinical presentation | | | | | Psoriasis vulgaris () | 26 (51) | 25 (49) | | | Guttate psoriasis () | 6 (6) | 11 (64) | 0.73 | | Erythrodermic psoriasis () | 4 (44) | 5 (55) | | | Pustular psoriasis () | 1 (50) | 1 (50) | | | Localization of the psoriasis | | | | | Scalp () | 17 (40) | 25 (60) | | | Nail () | 1 (25) | 3 (75) | 0.2 | | Skin fold () | 1 (50) | 1 (50) | | | Palmo-plantar () | 3 (100) | 0 | | | Body surface area involved | | | | | ≤ 30% () | 23 (66) | 12 (34) | | | > 30% () | 15 (33) | 30 (67) | 0.006 |
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