Department of Dermatology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Acta Derm Venereol. 2011 Jan;91(1):12-7. doi: 10.2340/00015555-1022.
The negative impact of skin disease on quality of life (QoL) has been described in many studies. Patient education as an adjunct to treatment, with the aim of improving QoL and reducing disease severity, is a relatively new technique in dermatology. The objective of this article is to analyse and summarise evidence concerning the effects of patient education on QoL and disease severity in patients with chronic skin diseases. All source material was identified through searches in MEDLINE and Embase. The CONSORT statement was used to assess the quality of reported randomised controlled studies. Ten of 254 studies met the inclusion criteria. In five of them, statistically significant improvements in QoL were reported. The severity of skin disease significantly improved in three studies. In conclusion, patient education appears to be effective in improving QoL and in reducing the perceived severity of skin disease.
许多研究都描述了皮肤病对生活质量（QoL）的负面影响。作为治疗的辅助手段，患者教育旨在改善 QoL 和减轻疾病严重程度，这是皮肤科的一项相对较新的技术。本文的目的是分析和总结有关患者教育对慢性皮肤病患者 QoL 和疾病严重程度影响的证据。所有原始资料均通过在 MEDLINE 和 Embase 中进行搜索确定。CONSORT 声明用于评估报告的随机对照研究的质量。在 254 项研究中，有 10 项符合纳入标准。其中 5 项报告 QoL 有统计学意义的改善。3 项研究表明皮肤疾病的严重程度显著改善。总之，患者教育似乎可以有效改善 QoL，并减轻对皮肤疾病严重程度的感知。
