Ishani Kartik Majmudar, Cathy Mihalopoulos, Julie Abimanyi-Ochom, Mohammadreza Mohebbi, Lidia Engel
The association between loneliness with health service use and quality of life among informal carers in Australia
Social science & medicine (1982)
background topical corticosteroids tcs mainstay therapy paediatric atopic dermatitis ad use tcs often met fear parents assessing parental tcs fear clinical practice still lacking aim aim assess parental fear beliefs tcs furthermore evaluated quality life qol family disease severity affected children methods conducted observational study crosssectional design inclusion criteria children aged 0 5 years diagnosis ad outpatient treatment outcome measures parental fears beliefs tcs assessed topical corticosteroid phobia score topicop parental qol evaluated family dermatology life quality index disease severity assessed scoring atopic dermatitis scorad descriptive statistic used analyse data results current study found 40 affected children 25 625 suffered mild ad 12 30 children moderate ad 3 75 children severe ad tcs fear among parents notable mean topicop score 181 standard deviation sd 71 qol moderately affected mean fdlqi score 65 sd 28 conclusions study indicates fear tcs prevalent furthermore data indicate severity tcs fear varies markedly parents ranging parents almost fear parents high levels fear effective education clinical practice individual level fear must recognized taken account