%0 Journal Article
%T What Factors are Important to Patients when Assessing Treatment Response: An International Cross-sectional Survey
%A Elke Weisshaar
%A Joanne R. Chalmers
%A Jochen Schmitt
%A Jumoke Ahubelem Ojo
%A Kim S. Thomas
%A Laura B. von Kobyletzki
%A Stefanie Deckert
%A Valeria Aoki
%A £¿ke Svensson
%J -
%@ 1651-2057
%D 2017
%R 10.2340/00015555-2480
%X This study investigated the perspective of international patients on individual symptoms of atopic dermatitis (eczema) in determining treatment response. A questionnaire was developed to evaluate the importance of symptoms from the patient¡¯s perspective. Patients were asked: ¡°How important are these features in deciding whether or not a treatment is working?¡±, and rated symptoms on a 5-point Likert scale. Patients were approached via Harmonising Outcome Measures for Eczema (HOME) collaborators and self-selected to take part in the on-line survey. Patients from 34 countries (n£¿=£¿1,111) completed the survey; of these, 423 (38.3%) were parents of children with eczema. Nine items were rated as being ¡°quite important¡± or ¡°very important¡± by more than 80% of the respondents: itch, pain/soreness, skin feels hot or inflamed, bleeding, involvement of visible or sensitive body sites, cracks, sleep difficulties, amount of body affected, and weeping/oozing. These results may be of use in determining the face validity of scales from a cross-cultural patients¡¯ perspective
%U http://www.medicaljournals.se/acta/content/abstract/10.2340/00015555-2480