The relationship between hope level and quality of life of psoriasis vulgaris patients / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the relationship between hope level and quality of life with psoria-sis vulgaris patients, and to make a reference for improving quality life of with psoriasis vulgaris patients. Methods 126 psoriasis vulgaris patients were investigated using the questionnaires of Herth Hope Inedx ( HHI) and Dermatology Life Quality Index( DLQI) .Results The average scores of HHI and DLQI of pso-riasis vulgaris patients were(33.37 ±5.15),(11.18 ±4.83)respectively,and the HHI score of psoriasis vul-garis patients was negatively correlated with the DLQI score ( r=-0.433, P<0.01) .The stepwise multivari-able regression showed that interconnectedness( R 2=0.177),education level( R 2=0.054) and years of psoriasis vulgaris( R 2=0.037) were the main influential factors on life quality of psoriasis vulgaris patients. Conclusion The hope level of psoriasis vulgaris patients is positively related with quality of life,so effective and targeted measures should be taken to improve their hope level in order to improve quality of life of psoria-sis vulgaris patients.