The COVID-19 era represented an important stressful event affecting population in many different ways, with important negative impact on social, working and relational life. Indeed, the home-isolation in addition to the high-level of distress given by fear of infection, has significantly resulted in a large number of psychological-consequences. Moreover, in order to guarantee a continuity of care, different measures have been applied among hospitals such as the implementation of teledermatology services. For these reasons, we implemented at our Dermatological-Clinic psychological video-consultations through our teledermatology-services. Herein we report our experience of 23 psychological-video-consultations, which led to achieve a significant reduction of DLQI (from 4.4 ± 3.9 at baseline to 1.6 ± 2.5 at week-4) in patients suffering from chronic skin conditions during the COVID-19 era.
Psychological teleconsultations in patients suffering from chronic skin diseases during the COVID-19 era: a service to improve patients’ quality of life / Marasca, C.; De Rosa, A.; Fabbrocini, G.; Cantelli, M.; Patri, A.; Vastarella, M.; Gallo, L.; di Vico, F.; Poggi, S.; Ruggiero, A.. - In: THE JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGICAL TREATMENT. - ISSN 0954-6634. - 33:3(2022), pp. 1736-1737. [10.1080/09546634.2020.1809625]
Psychological teleconsultations in patients suffering from chronic skin diseases during the COVID-19 era: a service to improve patients’ quality of life
Marasca C.;Fabbrocini G.;Cantelli M.;Vastarella M.;di Vico F.;Poggi S.;
2022
Abstract
The COVID-19 era represented an important stressful event affecting population in many different ways, with important negative impact on social, working and relational life. Indeed, the home-isolation in addition to the high-level of distress given by fear of infection, has significantly resulted in a large number of psychological-consequences. Moreover, in order to guarantee a continuity of care, different measures have been applied among hospitals such as the implementation of teledermatology services. For these reasons, we implemented at our Dermatological-Clinic psychological video-consultations through our teledermatology-services. Herein we report our experience of 23 psychological-video-consultations, which led to achieve a significant reduction of DLQI (from 4.4 ± 3.9 at baseline to 1.6 ± 2.5 at week-4) in patients suffering from chronic skin conditions during the COVID-19 era.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
