RESEARCH - Quality of life in psoriasis improves after standardized administration of narroband UVB phototherapy

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Australas J Dermatol. 2006 Feb;47(1):37-40.

Quality of life in psoriasis improves after standardized administration of

narrowband UVB phototherapy.

Lim C, Brown P.

Honorary Research Fellow, Skin and Cancer Foundation Australia,

Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia.

SUMMARY Psoriasis is a chronic fluctuating dermatosis with demonstrable

impact on patients' quality of life. Our aim was to investigate if

narrowband UVB phototherapy administered to psoriatic patients in a

standardized manner leads to an improvement in patients' perceived quality

of life. A total of 138 patients with psoriasis were recruited from

referrals to the Skin and Cancer Foundation, Australia between January 1998

and September 2002. Patients had psoriasis inadequately controlled by

topical therapies alone and no contraindications to the use of phototherapy.

Patients completed a pre- and post-therapy questionnaire on quality of life

parameters. The differences in mean and standard deviation of quality of

life parameters were measured using a paired sample t-test based on pre- and

post-phototherapy questionnaires. Ninety patients were included in the

study. Forty-eight patients were excluded as they had not completed

post-phototherapy questionnaires. The course of narrowband UVB phototherapy

was found to significantly improve quality of life in psoriasis patients (P

</= 0.005). We conclude that narrowband UVB phototherapy improves quality of

life in patients with psoriasis.

PMID: 16405481

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