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The Burden on Cohabitants of Patients with Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria: A Cross-Sectional Study.

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2022-05-30

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Sanchez-Diaz, Manuel
Salazar-Nievas, Maria-Carmen
Molina-Leyva, Alejandro
Arias-Santiago, Salvador

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MDPI AG
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Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria (CSU) has been associated with patients’ poor quality of life. Despite being a chronic disease that could alter the quality of life of the people who live with patients, the potential burden on their cohabitants has not been studied to date. The aim of this study is to analyze the relationship between the patient’s quality of life, disease control, disease duration and family quality of life and the cohabitant’s mood disturbances, sexual dysfunction, type D personality and sleep quality. A cross-sectional study including patients suffering from CSU and their cohabitants was performed. Sociodemographic variables and disease activity, quality of life, sleep, sexual disfunction, anxiety, depression and type D personality were collected using validated questionnaires. Sixty-two subjects, 31 CSU patients and 31 cohabitants, were included in the study. Worse disease control and poorer quality of life in patients were associated with poorer family quality of life and higher rates of anxiety among the cohabitants (p 10 years) was associated with an increased prevalence of type D personality among the cohabitants (prevalence ratio: 2.59, CI 95% 1.03−7.21). CSU seems to have an impact on the quality of life of cohabitants, especially in terms of increased rates of anxiety, poorer quality of life and reduced sexual satisfaction. The prolonged course of the disease could be associated with the increased presence of non-adaptative personality traits.

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Cross-Sectional Studies
Quality of Life
Depression
Orgasm
Prevalence
Sleep Quality

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Calidad de vida
Calidad del sueño
Depresión
Orgasmo
Estudios Transversales

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anxiety, cohabitants, quality of life, type D personality, urticaria

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Sánchez-Díaz M, Salazar-Nievas MC, Molina-Leyva A, Arias-Santiago S. The Burden on Cohabitants of Patients with Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria: A Cross-Sectional Study. J Clin Med. 2022 Jun 6;11(11):3228.