Helen L Richards

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..The objective of this study was to examine the psychometric properties and clinical correlates of the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) in patients with psoriasis...

..For the appropriate clinical management of the patient with psoriasis it is important that dermatologists are able to recognize this distress...

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..To examine patients' beliefs about systemic sclerosis (SSc) and to investigate the relationship between these beliefs, symptom report, and clinical and demographic variables...

..We hypothesize that patients with psoriasis, in this case male patients, develop a coping mechanism to protect them from stressful emotional responses by blocking the processing of disgusted facial expressions...

..Patients with psoriasis who are classified as high-level worriers may benefit from adjunctive psychological intervention before and during treatment. These findings provide further evidence of the existence of a brain-skin axis...

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..This observation highlights the complex features of patients' psychological experience of psoriasis and may provide further impetus for integration of psychological interventions into standard care protocols...

..Recall bias was limited to disease-specific stimuli only. The observed bias to threat is more appropriately accounted for by participant's status (i.e., psoriasis patient or control) than by psychological distress...

..Overall, the results suggest that in patients with AD the IPQ-R, in particular the consequences and emotional representations subscales, should be employed and interpreted with care...

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..The implications of the findings are discussed with reference to future directions for research and practice...

..Skin disease can cause psychologic difficulties, but information is lacking on the emotional impact of the common photosensitivity condition, polymorphous light eruption (PMLE)...

..The aim of the study was to assess the influence of general and dermatitis-specific psychological and clinical factors on quality of life in adults with atopic dermatitis (AD)...

..This haplotype may help predetermine variation in clinical response to GC therapy and also assist the understanding of diseases related to GC production...

..There seems little doubt that stress, either environmental or psoriasis induced, impacts on our patients and has important implications for the management of psoriasis...

..Objective To examine patients with PLE for evidence of anxiety and depression, the influence of demographic and clinical variables, and the coping strategies used...

..Psoriasis has been associated with excessive alcohol consumption and psychological distress...

..Patients should be assessed by a more holistic approach, which takes into account both physical and psychologic measurements, such as used in SPI, when assessing the severity of psoriasis...

..The implication is that such patients may perhaps be primed to flares of their psoriasis. Whether this is genetically predetermined and/or a consequence of the distress of living with psoriasis remains to be determined...

..69 95% CI 1.2-2.5 (p=0.008). The results provide evidence for polymorphisms in the MIF gene, and in particular the CATT(7)-MIF-173(*)C haplotype, being of importance in susceptibility to psoriasis...

..These data suggest that acute social stress reduces epidermal LC frequency and modulates cutaneous neuropeptide expression thereby supporting the concept of a "brain-skin" axis...

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..It appears that illness brings with it a generic form of coping that may require shaping to fit the individual demands of diseases such as psoriasis...

..Furthermore, the techniques learnt by participation in the PSMP facilitate continued control of psoriasis for at least 6 months...

..The findings were discussed in relation to the need for CBT as an adjunct treatment for patients with AD and its potential role in improving psychological functioning...

..This study suggests that participants' beliefs and emotional response are more strongly associated with the meaning they ascribe to their condition rather than its severity...