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The psychosocial adaptation of patients with skin disease: a scoping review

BMC Public Health volume 19, Article number: 1404 (2019) Cite this article

Abstract

Background

Skin disease is a global public health problem that often has physiological, psychological and social impacts. However, it is not very clear how to adapt to these impacts, especially psychosocial adaptation of patients with skin disease.

Methods

We searched EMBASE, PubMed, CINAHL and PsycINFO from 2009 to 2018. The following themes were extracted from the included articles: the concepts, related factors, and interventions for psychosocial adaptation of patients with skin disease. Two reviewers independently screened and analyzed.

Results

From 2261 initial records, 69 studies were identified and analyzed. The concept of psychosocial adaptation in patients with skin disease was referred to under an assortment of descriptions. The related factors for psychosocial adaptation in patients with skin disease included the following: demographic factors (sex, age, education level, ethnicity, BMI, sleep quality, marital status, exercise amount, family history, the use of topical treatment only, personality and history of smoking); disease-related factors (disease severity, clinical symptoms, localization and duration); psychological factors (anxiety/depression, self-esteem, body image, stigma and suicidal ideation); and social factors (social support, social interaction, sexual life, economic burden and social acceptance). Despite being limited in quantity, several studies have clarified the benefits of adjuvant care in the form of cognitive behavioral training, educational training and self-help programs, all of which have become common methods for dealing with the psychosocial impacts.

Conclusions

Based on the previous literatures, we constructed a protocol of care model for psychosocial adaptation in patients with skin disease. It not only provided the direction for developing new instruments that could assess psychosocial adaptation statue, but also a basis for helping patients adjust to changes in skin disease.

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Introduction

As the largest organ of the human body, the skin is the main barrier that resists the outside world.1 Because skin diseases are often not life-threatening, attention and funds may be invested in diseases considered more serious. However, the psychosocial and occupational impact of skin disease is frequently comparable to, if not greater than, other chronic medical conditions.2 The lifetime prevalence of skin disease was reported from European five countries, with skin disease including eczema (14.2%), atopic dermatitis (7.9%), psoriasis (5.2%) and vitiligo (1.9%).3 With the deterioration of environment and various pressures, the incidence of skin disease has increased in recent years. It has become a global public health problem.4 Many skin diseases have a chronic and repeated process, which requires us to treat the disease and help patients positive adaptation.5

Roy defines adaptation as the process and outcome whereby thinking and feeling persons as individuals or in groups use conscious awareness and choice to create human and environmental integration, including physiological, psychological and social aspects.6The British Association of Dermatologists suggested that 85% of patients with skin disease have reported that the psychosocial impacts of their disease are a major component of illness, which is a concerning statistic.7 Psychological and social analyses reveal that if the body is stimulated by stress and the external environment, the emotional state will change as an instinctive response.8 Skin disorders can significantly affect the psyche, and the psyche can significantly affect skin disorders through psycho-neuro-immuno-endocrine and behavioral mechanisms.9 And the stress is related to functional and psychological processes in skin disease patients with high levels of anxiety sensitivity.8 In response to the environmental pressures of extreme grief and fear, individuals will experience continuous tension.10 Skin diseases distort body image, which may have a negative impact on the psychosocial health and quality of life (QOL) of patients.11 A high severity of itching, pain, and scaling in psoriasis patients is related to high disease severity and low QOL and work productivity.12 The psychosocial adjustment to vitiligo is mainly affected by subjective factors.13

Therefore, it will be limited to attempts to understand the psychosocial impacts of psoriasis from the perspective of current measurements of demographic characteristics and disease severity.14 It is imperative to develop appropriate psychosocial adaptation (PA) evaluation tools for patients with skin disease.15 Various clinic models have been described to provide specialised psychodermatology care in specific settings.16 However, it is not clear the concepts, related factors and interventions of PA for patients with skin diseases. They were described by this scoping review. Based on the previous literatures, we attempted to present a protocol of care model for PA in patients with skin disease.

Methods

A scoping review can examine and clarify broader areas than a systematic review to identify gaps in the evidence, clarify key concepts, and report on the types of evidence that address and inform practices in the topic area.17 Therefore, a scoping review method was chosen to allow for the inclusion of different study designs; this type of study follows the methodology model proposed by Arksey and O’Malley to map the various concepts underpinning this research area, as well as to clarify the related factors and interventions.18 We followed the guidelines of the PRISMA-ScR19 which is included as an Additional file 1 document to this paper. We did not provide detailed critical appraisal of individual studies or meta-analyses as this is a developing area of research. The steps of the review are outlined below.

Identifying the research questions

This scoping review aimed to identify the various concepts and related factors of PA for patients with skin disease by mapping the existing literature in the field to provide a basis for developing instruments to assess the status of PA. Additionally, mapping showed a variety of interventions.

Identifying relevant studies

The search strategy was formed by the project team and consulting with information specialists (see Additional file 2). The following databases EMBASE, PubMed, CINAHL and PsycINFO were chosen and searched from 2009 to 2018 for publications with no limit on language, which covered a wide range of subjects including medicine, psychosociology and nursing. EndNote was applied to exclude duplicate records and manage inclusion literatures.

Selecting the literature

The inclusion criteria were as follows:

  • Population: Patients experiencing skin diseases diagnosed as psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, eczema, vitiligo or chronic urticaria.

  • Range of concepts: The psychosocial adaptation of patients in different skin conditions. According to previous research and team discussion, the following concepts were often used to reflect psychosocial impacts of patients with skin diseases: anxiety/depression, body image, stigma, self-esteem, social support, family function, financial costs and work. Some studies even equated the PA of patients with the QOL.

  • Context: Adult population for 18 years old or older.

All articles provided primary data on the various concepts, related factors and interventions of PA for patients with skin disease from 2009 to 2018. Single case reports and comments were excluded. Firstly, in order to avoid missing valuable literature, two researchers conducted three rounds of assessments that included reading the study titles and abstracts for the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Second, the full texts of the studies identified through screening were independently assessed for eligibility by two authors. Third, the studies were classified for mapping according to the definitions and descriptions of methods provided in the publication.17 Finally, data extraction was undertaken by one author (JBI systematic review researcher) using a structured form. The accuracy of data extracted from the included studies was checked by another author. Any disagreements were resolved by a larger team discussion.

Charting the data

A total of 69 articles were finally included in this review and were then subjected to data charting. The data charting took the following information into consideration: author(s), year of publication, country of origin, study population, sample size, methodology, concept, assessment tool, related factors and interventions of PA for patients with skin diseases.

Collating, summarizing, and reporting the literature

The various concepts of PA for patients with skin diseases were identified. The related factors in the papers reviewed were classified as demographic, physiological, psychological or social factors. The interventions were reported.

Results

The search strategy yielded 2261 potential papers. After removing duplications (n = 548) and eliminating 936 by a first pass through the titles and abstracts, the potentially relevant literature was screened in two rounds and resulted in 69 studies. The remaining studies were clustered in the following three facets: i) various concepts of PA (n = 7), ii) related factors of PA (n = 51), and iii) interventions (n = 11) (Fig. 1). The characteristics of the included literature are presented in Table 1.

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PRISMA flow diagram of illustrating literature search and selection

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Table 1 Mapping of study characteristics of all studies included in this review
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Various concepts of psychosocial adaptation for patients with skin disease

A clear conceptual definition of psychosocial adaptation is identified by Rodgers’ evolutionary concept analysis, and the identified attributes of PA include change, process, continuity, interaction and influence, all of which were present in the multidisciplinary literature reviewed, thus demonstrating the wide use of the concept.20, 21 In the nineteenth century, skin diseases were linked to psychosocial factors. The mechanism was proposed and clarified in subsequent decades, and multidisciplinary collaboration was crucial to promote the adaptation of patients with skin diseases.22 PA was referred to under an assortment of descriptions in skin diseases including psychosocial factor,11, 23 burden,24, 25 impact,26 morbidity,15 and aspect.27 The measurement methods used in the literature are shown in Table 2.

Table 2 Measurement methods used in the literatures
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Related factors of psychosocial adaptation for patients with skin disease

Table 3 shows the related factors of PA for patients with skin disease including the demographic, disease-related, psychological and social factors.

Table 3 related factors of psychosocial adaptation in patients with skin disease
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Demographic factors

With regard to demographic facets, the key factors reported were sex,13, 28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38 age,31, 35, 38,39,40,41 education level,34, 36, 41,42,43 ethnicity,32, 42 BMI,44, 45 sleep quality,46, 47 marital status,28, 48 exercise amount,49 family history,43 the use of topical treatment only,32 personality13 and history of smoking.44 Females were more prone to depressive and psychosocial maladaptation than males with skin disease.28, 31, 50 Because females were more likely to believe in the importance of physical appearance to their personal or social values than males, their investment in physical attractiveness was significantly increased. Psychological impacts related to skin disease may largely be attributed to the patients’ maladaptive assumptions about appearance and society’s focus on the perfect body and beauty. However, the genital lesions in males were more prone to cause sexual dysfunction than the lesions in females.35 There was no agreement for the impact of age on psychosocial level.31 Younger psoriasis patients can experience feelings of embarrassment, disturbance of daily activities, poor physical health, and low productivity at work. Nevertheless, it was also found that old age was related to a high risk for depression in atopic dermatitis patients. Education level also influenced the QOL of patients with psoriasis.

Disease-related factors

The disease-related factors were severity,12, 31,32,33,34, 36, 39,40,41, 43, 49, 51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60 clinical symptoms (itching,47, 48, 52, 61 pain, scaling),12, 54, 62 localization (visible and genital parts)28, 34, 43, 50, 63, 64 and duration.28, 29, 33, 43 The severity of the skin disease was associated with the level of depression and anxiety, and it had a negative effect on QOL.23, 27 Itching is the cardinal clinical symptom of patients with skin disease, which can result in sleep deprivation and mental disorders. However, the localization of the skin lesions was often more important than the disease severity and was associated with negative mental health, including depression, social anxiety, self-image disorder, and stigmatization. The ‘sensitive’ body regions were defined as the visible parts of the body, which included the scalp, face, neck, hand and fingernails.43 Additionally, the psoriasis lesions located on the genitals, buttocks, abdomen, chest or lumbar region were more likely to lead to sexual dysfunction.64 The clinical symptoms of psoriasis, particularly itching, pain and scaling, negatively affected health outcomes and work productivity.62

Psychological factors

With respect to psychological facet, the related factors included anxiety and depression,36, 39, 40, 42, 44,45,46, 48, 55, 60, 61, 65 self-esteem,13, 34, 53, 66 body image,30, 53, 67 stigma29, 41 and suicidal ideation.46, 48 Skin disease patients have a high level of anxiety or depression. Proinflammatory cytokines such as IL-1 and IL-6 were found in both psoriasis and depression, indicating that the inflammatory process may be involved in the progression of both diseases.68 Depression in psoriasis patients was related to a high risk of stroke and cardiovascular death, especially during acute depression.69 The adaptation of vitiligo patients has been considered to be affected by self-esteem levels. The following five common themes of stigma have been identified in patients with psoriasis: anticipation of rejection, feelings of being flawed, sensitivity to the attitudes of society, secretiveness, guilt and shame.15 A high level of stigma and low self-esteem have negative effects on patient compliance.

Social factors

The social factors of PA in patients with skin disease were: social support,29, 37, 40, 49, 57, 70 social interaction,36, 67, 70, 71 sexual life49, 63 and economic burden 42, 72,73,74,75,76 (medical expenses,52 work productivity,12, 52, 54, 59, 62, 77, 78 income level43, 51). It was found that high levels of perceived social support were positively correlated with the low occurrence of depressive symptoms.11 The marriages and relationships of 50% of vitiligo patients were negatively affected by skin disease.79 Due to its physical symptoms and the stigma caused by the appearance of skin, psoriasis can be considered a socially isolating disease.68 Psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory skin disease, seems to be related to erectile dysfunction, which was a predictor of future cardiovascular disease.65 It is critical to accurately evaluate effective treatments of skin disease to understand the interaction between lost productivity, direct costs and quality of life.76

Interventions of psychosocial adaptation for patients with skin disease

The outcomes of PA include positive and negative aspects.20 Table 4 shows the PA interventions of skin disease included cognitive behavioral therapy,80,81,82,83,84,85,86 educational training,82, 87,88,89 self-help programs,80, 81, 84 psychotherapy84 and communication.90

Table 4 Psychosocial adaptation interventions of skin disease
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Discussion

This scoping review analyzed the contents of 69 papers with results that were three-fold: i) some reported the various concepts of PA for patients with skin disease, which required that future research should unify the terms; ii) some reported the related factors of PA for patients with skin disease, which provided a basis for developing instruments that assess the status of PA for patients with skin disease; and iii) others reported a variety of interventions, which provided a basis for formulating a protocol of care model for PA in patients with skin disease.

Patients with skin disease often have to cope with a condition that leads to physical disfigurement, psychological destruction and social stigma. Although a large number of studies have been conducted on the treatment of patients with skin diseases, few studies have been directed towards the status and interventions of the psychosocial adaptation for patients with skin disease. It was shown that psychoeducational intervention for acceptance and managing social impact is needed, which is also the first step to informing the development of a patient-centered psychological intervention.91 Adding nondrug treatments such as biofeedback, cognitive behavioral methods, CES, EFT, EMDR, hypnosis, mindfulness meditation, placebo effect, or suggestions often enhances the therapeutic effect.9 The major routes for coping with the impacts of skin disease include the doctor-patient relationship, education of the patient and the community about the actual nature of these diseases, and more structured therapeutic strategies such as individual, group, or behavioral therapy. In response to patient feedback and NICE guidelines, the ‘Psoriasis Direct’ service was launched in 2013; this service aims to give patients open access to specialist nurses when they need it for secondary care, and ‘Psoriasis Direct’ has received overwhelmingly positive feedback.92 Despite being limited in quantity, several studies have clarified the benefits of adjuvant care in the form of cognitive behavioral training, educational training and self-help programs. An electronic health record system for patients with skin disease has not been established for long-term follow-up, so there is a lack of a systematic care model and financial support.93

Most researchers have posited models in which adaptation is conceptualized as a process of change in reaction triggered by functional limitations associated with external environmental antecedents (eg, injury, accidents, traumas) or internal pathogenic condition (eg, disease).21 And the adaptation process suggests an unfolding paradigm in which the individual’s reactions to his or her chronic illness or disability follow a stable sequence of phase (ie, partially overlapping and nonexclusive psychosocial reactions), or stage (ie, discrete and categorically exclusive psychosocial reactions) that can be temporally and hierarchically ordered. Others view psychosocial adaptation to chronic illness and disability as one of a set of independent and nonsequential patterns of human behavior.21 Based on previous theories and studies, when individuals have skin diseases, the individuals will make different primary assessments due to their different demographic, psychological and social conditions. If individuals think they can cope with the skin disease, they will adopt a positive attitude and behavior to face it, which refers to positive psychosocial adaptation. However, if individuals think they cannot cope with the skin disease, they will suffer from psychosocial maladaptation or conduct a secondary assessment. The above two situations continued to occur after the secondary assessment. If we can carry out targeted psychosocial intervention before the individual experience invalid adaptation, we can help patients positively deal with the skin disease and then promote patient adaptation (Fig. 2).

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A protocol of care model for psychosocial adaptation in patients with skin disease

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Strength and limitations

This research included studies in different settings, which brought to light the range of concept and related factors of PA for patients with skin disease, which could provide the direction for further research. A scoping review method was chosen to allow for the inclusion of different study designs, and it does not involve detailed critical appraisal of individual studies or meta-analyses. Considering partial databases selected and gray literature not included, the results are used only as an overview of the field.

Conclusion

The clinical process of a series of skin diseases is the result of a complex and sometimes reciprocal interaction among biological, psychological, and social factors, all of which can play a role in the occurrence and development of skin diseases. This review described the range of concept and related factors of psychosocial adaptation for patients with skin disease, which could contribute to the development of new instruments. The protocol of care model based on previous theory and research could provide directions for care and policy that promote psychosocial adaptation for patients with skin disease. Further research is needed to examine the effectiveness of psychosocial interventions based on the protocol of care model for individuals with skin disease.

Availability of data and materials

All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article and its supplementary information files.

Abbreviations

PA:

Psychosocial Adaptation

QOL:

Quality of Life

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Zhang, Xj., Wang, Ap., Shi, Ty. et al. The psychosocial adaptation of patients with skin disease: a scoping review. BMC Public Health 19, 1404 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7775-0

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