Itch severity and quality of life in patients with pruritus: Preliminary validity of a danish adaptation of the itch severity scale

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 508-514

  Zachariae, Robert ^a   Lei, Ulrikke ^b   Haedersdal, Merete ^c   Zachariae, Claus ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Pruritus; Quality of life; Sleep impairment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISCRIMINATIVE VALIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENITAL PRURITUS; HUMAN; ITCH SEVERITY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPHROGENIC PRURITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SLEEP QUALITY; URTICARIA; VALIDITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENMARK; DEPRESSION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRURITUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP DISORDERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868338875     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: 16512057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1221     Document Type: Article

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