Elisa L Pehlke, Paola Letona, Kristen Hurley, Joel Gittelsohn
Guatemalan school food environment: impact on schoolchildren's risk of both undernutrition and overweight/obesity
Health promotion international
topical corticosteroids tcs mainstay treatment atopic dermatitis ad flares fears worries concerning tcs known corticophobia corticophobia common patients ad lead suboptimal tcs application treatment failure health literacy hl may influence corticophobia topicop hlseupt questionnaires developed evaluate corticophobia hl respectively evaluate relationship corticophobia degree hl patients ad prospective crosssectional study ad patients followed dermatology department september 2019 february 2020 patients parents patients 15 years invited answer topicop questionnaire hlseupt questionnaire disease characterization demographic questionnaire included 61 patients 574 females mean age 20 138 years mean disease duration 125 114 years topicop mean score 448 200 83 889 hlseupt mean score 305 85 11 479 topicop score negatively correlated hlseupt score p 0002 r 0382 r2 0146 statistical difference topicop score disease characteristics disease severity family history ad personal history atopic diseases small heterogenous cohort composed patients patients parents degree corticophobia similar values reported studies hl inverse correlation corticophobia lower hl shown predictor higher corticophobia promotion health literacy essential correct use tcs good control ad