Clinical Efficacy of a Digital Intervention for Patients with Atopic Dermatitis: a Prospective Single-Center Study - Dermatology and Therapy
Source : https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13555-022-00821-y
Introduction Improving disease awareness and treatment adherence is key for the long-term management of atopic dermatitis (AD). Digital interventions can support patients in disease self-management and adopting a healthier lifestyle...
Conclusion: Patients with AD are open to and can benefit from a digitally delivered targeted intervention, as demonstrated by significant improvements in treatment adherence and related clinical outcomes.
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Barbara Honig3yrYes, it seems that digital interventions are here to stay and generally well-regarded by patients. Personally, I don't recommend them much unless a patient specifically asks about them since there Show More
Conclusion: Clinicians and patients are encouraged to incorporate these well-validated, quick-to-perform, and easy-to-use instruments into their clinic, selecting the instruments that best fit their need. These assessments are meant to enhance, not replace, the patient–clinician encounter, and to support real-world research and health care...
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Barbara Honig3yrIt is truly difficult to objectively measure subjective symptoms such as itch intensity in patients when seen in the office - what bothers one patient tremendously may not burden another Show More
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Jeremy Moss, Medical director and physician3yrDue to its inherent subjectivity, properly and objectively measuring itch intensity in patients has proven to be a difficult challenge. Nonetheless, trying to do this as accurately as possible Show More
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Cognitive-behavioral intervention for anxiety associated with food allergy in a clinical sample of children
Source : https://www.annallergy.org/article/S1081-1206(22)01769-0/fulltext
Although some measure of caution is healthy and adaptive for those with food allergy (FA) to reduce risk of accidental ingestion, clinically impairing food allergy-related anxiety (FAA) contributes to poorer...
Conclusion: Anxiety severity scores on the Scale of Food Allergy Anxiety and the Scale of Child Anxiety–Related Emotional Disorders significantly declined per both child and parent reports.
Conclusion: This work provides clinically relevant information on adults with AD treated with tralokinumab who were diagnosed with COVID-19 or received SARS-CoV-2 vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic. New SARS-CoV-2 variants, evolving vaccination guidelines, and COVID-19 treatments may affect decision-making in the future.
Eczema and related atopic diseases are associated with increased symptom severity in children with autism spectrum disorder - Translational Psychiatry
Source : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-022-02185-5
Growing evidence indicates that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has diverse genetic, neurological, and environmental factors that contribute to its neurodevelopmental course. Interestingly, childhood ASD is often accompanied by skin disorders,...
Atopic children were 2.4 times more likely to experience overall impairments classified within the ADOS-2 highest-level severity bracket and 2.7 times more likely to show social difficulties in this range. Moreover, those reporting comorbid eczema displayed increased symptom severity relative to both their non-atopic peers and those reporting...