Compare the characteristics and quality of life in patients with vitiligo and non-patients

Pages: 1058-1061
Zahra Karimi Pour, Alireza Feyli, and Hossein Baghooli (Department of Psychology, Shiraz branch, Islamic Azad University, Shiraz, Iran)

The purpose of this study was compare personality traits and quality of life in patients with vitiligo and no patient individuals. The population sampling included all of the coetaneous (skinny) patients, affected by vitiligos that were (admitted) to Faghihi martyr hospital in Shiraz. The sample of study included of 108 people (54 patients affected by vitiligo & 54 non patients) that were selected through of no probability sampling (accecilable). Data from the questionnaire via the NEO character and features of the World Health Organization quality of life were collected. For the decomposition and analysis of data, applied from (was used from) multi variable variance analysis. The result showed that: there was not significance difference between the quality of life in people affected by vitiligo and no patients. But in component of mental health and social relationships, two groups were different [F (5,102) =5.30, p<0.001], and no patient individuals had a higher mean than affected by vitiligo individuals in two components. Also was the significant difference among two groups in extroversion and receptiveness traits, and according to the means, no patient individuals had a higher mean than affected individuals by vitiligo disease [F (5,102) =2.52, p<0.03].