Open AccessRole of depression, anxiety and stress in patients with oral lichen planus: A pilot study
Author(s) -
Chaithra Kalkur,
Atul Sattur,
Kruthika S Guttal
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of dermatology/indian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1998-3611
pISSN - 0019-5154
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5154.159625
Subject(s) - anxiety , medicine , depression (economics) , oral lichen planus , dass , exacerbation , psychiatry , clinical psychology , dermatology , economics , macroeconomics
Lichen planus is a psychosomatic disease. Higher frequency of psychiatric symptoms, poor quality of life, higher level of anxiety and neuroendocrine and immune dysregulations, all these factors, will enhance the exacerbation of the disease.