L40
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: patients with psoriasis
Group 2: skin-healthy controls
Sponsors
Justus-Liebig-Universität
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: - Gender "male" or "female", - Sufficient German language skills to be able to answer the questionnaires, - Good eyesight (if necessary corrected by visual aids, e.g. glasses or contact lenses); Additional criteria for patients with psoriasis: - Clinically diagnosed psoriasis according to ICD-10, - Duration of psoriasis: at least six months, - Current symptoms of psoriasis
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: - Presence of a (in case of psoriasis patients: another) clinically diagnosed skin disease according to ICD-10 (in case of psoriasis patients: skin disease is of higher importance than their psoriasis from the subject's point of view), - Mental illness that is currently being treated or has been treated within the past 6 months, - Sexual orientation other than heterosexual
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Desire to socially distance, measured by the adapted German Version of the Social Distance Scale (SDS; Link et al., 1987; Angermeyer & Matschinger, 2003) | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Perceived attractiveness of the person depicted in the image, measured via a single self-developed item with a 5-point Likert scale from 1 = "not at all attractive" to 5 = "very attractive"; Agreement with false statements about psoriasis, assessed via the German version of the Myth Endorsement Items (Pearl et al., 2019; Sommer et al., 2022) | — |
Countries
Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Contacts
Public ContactJohanna Munz
Institut für Medizinische Psychologie, Fachbereich 11 - Medizin, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Outcome results
None listed