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QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
Volume 12, Issue 2, Pages 250-261Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/104973202129119874
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Psoriasis is one of the most common chronic skin diseases. The author presented results from a qualitative study focusing on patients with severe psoriasis in an acute phase and their experience of living with the disease. Twenty-two hospitalized patients with psoriasis were interviewed in depth. The interviews were consecutively analyzed according to grounded theory methodology. Bodily suffering emerged as a core variable in the data. Bodily suffering includes the following categories: the visible body, staying on an even keel, coping with an all-consuming disease, and social vulnerability. The results of this study indicate that the criterion for the management of psoriasis should be the patients' own perception of the consequences of the disease.
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