Ekbäck Maria Palmetun, Lindberg Magnus, Benzein Eva, Årestedt Kristofer
Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Örebro, 701 85, Örebro, Sweden.
Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University, SE 70182, Örebro, Sweden.
Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2014 Dec 20;12:183. doi: 10.1186/s12955-014-0183-3.
Women with hirsutism have reported imparied health and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Social support is a factor that might increase HRQoL in chronic diseases, but little is known about this association among women with hirsutism.
The aim of the study was to describe social support and explore its association with HRQoL among women with hirsutism. A further aim was to compare HRQoL in women with hirsutism with a Swedish normal population.
A questionnaire including socio-demographic questions, Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), and a self-estimation of hairiness using the Ferriman-Gallway scale (F-G scale) was answered by 127 women with hirsutism.
Multiple regression analyses showed significant associations between social support and all health dimensions in the SF-36, also after the model was adjusted for age, hairiness and body mass index. Compared to the normal Swedish population, women with hirsutism reported significantly lower HRQoL in all dimensions of the SF-36 (p < 0.01).
There is a significant positive association between social support and HRQoL, demonstrating its importance for the ability to adapt to problems associated with hirsutism. As women with hirsutism reported poorer HRQoL compared to the normal population, social support may be a factor to consider in clinical practice.
多毛症女性报告称其健康及与健康相关的生活质量（HRQoL）受损。社会支持是可能提高慢性病患者HRQoL的一个因素，但对于多毛症女性中的这种关联知之甚少。
本研究的目的是描述多毛症女性的社会支持情况，并探讨其与HRQoL的关联。另一个目的是将多毛症女性的HRQoL与瑞典正常人群进行比较。
127名多毛症女性回答了一份问卷，问卷包括社会人口学问题、简短健康调查问卷（SF - 36）、多维感知社会支持量表（MSPSS）以及使用费里曼 - 盖尔韦量表（F - G量表）进行的毛发浓密程度自我评估。
多元回归分析显示，在对年龄、毛发浓密程度和体重指数进行模型调整后，社会支持与SF - 36中的所有健康维度之间仍存在显著关联。与瑞典正常人群相比，多毛症女性在SF - 36的所有维度上报告的HRQoL显著更低（p < 0.01）。
社会支持与HRQoL之间存在显著的正相关，表明其对于适应多毛症相关问题的能力具有重要意义。由于多毛症女性报告的HRQoL比正常人群更差，社会支持可能是临床实践中需要考虑的一个因素。
