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Department of Psychology, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
Research Article
Factors that Predict Patients' Satisfaction with the Psychological Outcome and the Appearance of their Skin after Treatment
Author(s): Charalambos Costeris*, Maria Petridou and Yianna Ioannou
Objective: The present study examined whether dermatological patients’ demographic and social characteristics
could predict their satisfaction with the medical outcome. Moreover, it focused on two aspects of patients’ satisfaction;
firstly, psychological factors that could predict satisfaction from the medical outcome and secondly, satisfaction from
the appearance of their skin, after treatment.
Methods: 108 patients (18~35 years) participated in the study. Fifty four were diagnosed by their Dermatologists
with severe visible facial cystic acne (Group A) and 54 with non-visible psoriasis/eczema (Group B). The study
included two assessment phases: prior to and post dermatological treatment phase. At prior to treatment phase, all
patients agreed with their Dermatologist to begin medical treatment and were administer.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2155-9554.21.12.552