Open AccessPsychiatric Morbidity and Quality of Life in Vitiligo Patients
Author(s) -
Podaralla Ramakrishna,
Tenali Rajni
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
indian journal of psychological medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 0975-1564
pISSN - 0253-7176
DOI - 10.4103/0253-7176.135385
Subject(s) - vitiligo , depression (economics) , quality of life (healthcare) , mental illness , psychiatry , medicine , mental health , psychology , dermatology , nursing , economics , macroeconomics
Vitiligo has underlying mental illness but mostly not diagnosed and never used psychiatric medication. Hence, the problem persists affecting mostly the individual's quality of life.