Kualitas Hidup pada Penderita dengan Gangguan Pigmentasi

Abstract

Background: Quality of Life (QoL) is a term which involves many issues, including social well- being, health farnily and psychosocial relationship. Skin besides has physio-anatomical

firnctions, also has psychosocial fi:nctions. Pigmentary disorders are skin diseases that can impact one's mental emotional conditions. Objective; To know the relationship hetween quality of life and pigmentary disorders on patients with pigmentary disorders. Methods: An analytic descriptive study with cross sectional desigrl was done in July 2009 mtil October 2009. Subjects of this study were patients who were diagnosed clinically with pigmentarT disorders > 18 years old who fullfilled the inclusion criteria. Data were collected include age, gender, marital status, educational level, occupatioru ethnicity, duration of disease, localization of disease, complain! diagnosis, sum total types of pigrnenlary disorders, psychological and physical impact, and the total scores of DLQI (Dermatology Life Quality Index) questionnai re. Dala were processed using the Mann-Whitney test, Kruskall-Wallis test and correlation test of Spearman. Results: Subjects of study which consisted of 112 patients with pigrnentary disorders within range ofage 18-74 years old. The most of participants were among those aged 34-41 years old (19,60/o), female (81,3%), married (65,27q), moderate educational level (44,6%), occupation as independent workers, labors, or farmers (21,470), 68,8% ethic distribution was Batak' had suffered pigrnentary disorders during l-5 years (43,8Yo), the most frequent location was face (62,5V,), 58,0% participants complain about pigpentary disorders. The most prevalent pignrentary disorder was melasma (60,70/o), and most of patients only had single type of pigmentary disorder Q7,7W. The level of psyohologioal and physical impact on patients due to pigmentary disorders were observed that most patients were bothered enough by their pigmentary abnormalities to ask about treatment (44,6%), followed by patients who no concem shown (41,1%). There were statistically significant differences between mean DLQI scores among pigmentary disorders group based on age, marital status, occupation, duration of disease, localization of disease, diagnosis, complaint, and psychological and physical impact. The correlation between variable DLQI score and age was moderate, but correlation between variable DLQI score and dumtion of diseases was weak. Both with negative correlation value. Conclusions: There were sigrrificant relationships between quality of life and age, marital status, occupation, dumtion of disease, localization of disease, diagrr.osis, complaint, and psychological and physical impact and there were correlation between quality of life and age and duration of disease on patients with pignentary disorders.