CLINICAL REPORT
563
The Role of Therapy in Impairing Quality of Life in Dermatological
Patients: A Multinational Study
Flora N. BALIEVA 1 , Andrew Y. FINLAY 2 , Jörg KUPFER 3 , Lucia TOMAS ARAGONES 4 , Lars LIEN 5,6 , Uwe GIELER 7 , Francoise
POOT 8 , Gregor B. E. JEMEC 9 , Laurent MISERY 10 , Lajos KEMENY 11 , Francesca SAMPOGNA 12 , Henriët VAN MIDDENDORP 13 ,
Jon Anders HALVORSEN 14,15 , Thomas TERNOWITZ 1 , Jacek C. SZEPIETOWSKI 16 , Nikolay POTEKAEV 17,18 , Servando E.
MARRON 19 , Ilknur K. ALTUNAY 20 , Sam S. SALEK 21,22 and Florence J. DALGARD 5,23
Departments of Dermatology: 1 Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway, 7 Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, 8 ULB-Erasme
Hospital, Brussels, Belgium, 9 Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark, 10 University Hospital of Brest, Brest, France, 14 Oslo University
Hospital, Rikshospitalet, 15 University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 18 Russian National Research Medical University Pirogov, Moscow, Russia, 19 Royo
Villanova Hospital, Aragon Health Sciences Institute, Zaragoza, Spain and 20 Sisli Etfal Teaching and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey,
2
Department of Dermatology and Wound Healing, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, UK, 3 Institute of Medical Psychology, Justus
Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, 4 Department of Psychology, University of Zaragoza, Aragon Health Sciences Institute, Zaragoza, Spain,
5
National Norwegian advisory board for concurrent addiction and mental health problems, Innlandet Hospital Trust, Brumunddal, 6 Department
of Public Health, Innlandet University College, Elverum, Norway, 11 Department of Dermatology and Allergology, University of Szeged, Szeged,
Hungary, 12 Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Istituto Dermopatico dell’Immacolata, Rome, Italy, 13 Health, Medical and Neuropsychology Unit, Faculty
of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, 16 Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology,
Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland, 17 Moscow Scientific and Practical Centre of Dermatovenereology and Cosmetology, 21 School
of Life & Medical Sci