The development of an acne quality of life scale: Reliability, validity, and relation to subjective acne severity in mild to moderate acne vulgaris

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 451-456

  Gupta, Madhulika A ^a,c   Johnson, Andrew M ^a   Gupta, Aditya K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Factor analysis; Mental disorder; Social; Vocational

Indexed keywords

ACNE VULGARIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ACNE VULGARIS; ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CICATRIX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); DEPRESSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 0031791779     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000155598442773     Document Type: Article

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