A cross-sectional study using the Children's Dermatology Life Quality Index (CDLQI) in childhood psoriasis: negative effect on quality of life and moderate correlation of CDLQI with severity scores.

摘要

BACKGROUND: Juvenile psoriasis is a chronic and incurable skin disease that affects approximately 0.7% of children. OBJECTIVES: To achieve more insight into the quality of life (QoL) in childhood psoriasis and to investigate whether disease severity scores correlate with QoL scores. METHODS: All consecutive patients with juvenile plaque psoriasis (