TY - JOUR AU - Bubak, Corinna AU - Schaarschmidt, Marthe-Lisa AU - Schöben, Lisa AU - Peitsch, Wiebke Katharina AU - Schmieder, Astrid PY - 2019 DA - 2019/11/19 TI - Analyzing the value of an educational program for psoriasis patients: a prospective controlled pilot study JO - BMC Public Health SP - 1535 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease associated with a reduced life-quality. Severe disease forms put the patients at risk for life-treating cardiovascular events, metabolic, and other immune-mediated disorders. Psoriasis patients are often not sufficiently informed about their condition leading to suboptimal treatment adherence and, consequently, worse patient outcome. We investigated the value of an educational program on knowledge and self-expertise about the disease in psoriasis patients in general and dependent on age and disease duration. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7778-x DO - 10.1186/s12889-019-7778-x ID - Bubak2019 ER -