Chronic Inflammatory Skin Disease Study: Patient-Reported Outcomes and Stigma

A single-center cross-sectional study of 404 patients with chronic inflammatory skin diseases. The dataset includes assessments of disease severity (affected body surface area, itch, pain), illness-related stigma, hope, perceived social support, and dermatology-specific quality of life. The data was collected using validated Chinese-language instruments and analyzed via structural equation modeling.

Use Cases

• Modeling the mediating role of stigma between disease severity and quality of life based on structural equation modeling results.
• Analyzing the relationship between clinical measures (BSA, itch, pain) and psychosocial constructs (stigma, hope, social support).
• Investigating predictors of dermatology-specific health-related quality of life using validated scales like the DLQI.
• Examining the variance explained in key outcomes (stigma, hope, HRQoL) by the proposed pathway model.

Strengths

• Dataset includes 404 patient records from a clinical study.
• All psychological and quality-of-life measures used validated Chinese-language versions of established scales.
• The structural equation model accounted for 44.0% of the variance in dermatology-specific HRQoL.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single-center study.

Provenance

Source

Xiaoya Fang via figshare.

Collection Method

Single-center cross-sectional study using patient questionnaires and clinical assessments.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-07 05:41:08; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Likely China, based on the use of validated Chinese-language instruments.