Abstract
Quality of life (QoL) is significantly affected in patients with dermatomyositis (DM), with physical and emotional symptoms having a negative impact on a patient’s QoL. Several skin disease-specific and global medical measurement tools are available, but few studies have assessed QoL in DM patients. In this article, we review skin disease-specific tools and instruments used in QoL assessments in cutaneous diseases and DM patients, in addition to reviewing two global QoL assessment tools that are frequently used in skin disease patients. A search of the literature yielded two studies that measured QoL in DM. One studied the effect of cutaneous symptoms on QoL in DM, and the second studied the impact of both systemic and cutaneous symptoms on QoL in DM. We searched Medline for studies related to QoL in all disease subsets of DM from the period of 1990 to 2010. In addition, reference lists of articles and conference proceedings from international dermatology and rheumatology meetings were reviewed. The tools...
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