Personality traits, depression and itch in patients with atopic dermatitis in an experimental setting: A regression analysis

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 20-25

  Schut, Christina ^a   Bosbach, Simon ^a   Gieler, Uwe ^a   Kupfer, Jörg ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Atopic dermatitis; Depression; Personality characteristics; Psychodermatology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSECT; MALE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCRATCHING; SELF CONCEPT; SKIN DISEASE; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; ANXIETY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CUES; DEPRESSION; DERMATITIS, ATOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY; PRURITUS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VIDEO RECORDING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890177930     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: 16512057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1634     Document Type: Article

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