Assessing the Impact of Atopic Dermatitis on the Patients' Parents with the Visual Instrument ‘Caregiver-PRISM'

Assessing the Impact of Atopic Dermatitis on the Patients' Parents with the Visual Instrument ‘Caregiver-PRISM': Background: There is a need to improve the quality of communication between clinicians and parents of young patients with atopic eczema (AE). Objective: To create a tool to measure the suffering that caregivers experience in association with their child's AE (Caregiver Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self-Measure, Caregiver-PRISM), assess the validity and reliability, and identify factors associated with caregiver suffering. Methods: Caregiver-PRISM was administered to 45 parents of patients from an AE outpatient service (Padua, Italy). Results: Caregiver-PRISM had a good test-retest reliability (r = 0.85; t₇ = 4.13; p Conclusion: Our results support the use of Caregiver-PRISM in parents of AE patients to assess suffering associated with patients' illness.

Dermatology




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