Mohammad Mahdi Zakeri*1, Roya Rezapur2, Jafar Hasani3
Background: Psychological factors such as emotion can play predisposing, precipitating or maintaining roles in skin diseases.
Objective: The present study was aimed to the comparison of the effectiveness of processing emotion regulation strategies training on psychological distress in patient with psoriasis and vitiligo.
Methods: The present research was a quasi-experimental study. All patients were assessed 6 times by the study’s instruments (complete package of the PERST based on Gross Model, Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale )DASS) at pre-treatment, during treatment and 45-day follow-up. Among those, 3 patients with vitiligo and 3 patients with psoriasis were selected by convenient sampling.
Results: There is no significant difference between the two groups' mean in terms of depression and stress components (P-Value>0.05) but in the anxiety component, the mean of patients with vitiligo was lower than the mean for patients with psoriasis and this difference was statistically significant (P-Value<0.05(.
Conclusion: Psychological distress role in predisposing, precipitating and continuation of skin disorders especially psoriasis and vitiligo and subsequently in other aspects of their lives and the PERST can play an important role by reducing psychological distress as adjunctive and Rehabilitation therapies with medical treatment.
