title: The bodily suffering of living with severe psoriasis: in-depth interviews with 22 hospitalized patients with psoriasis.
abstract: 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 soriasis should be the patients' own perception of the consequences of the disease.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health at Buskerud College, Norway.
authors.forename: Astrid Klopstad
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Wahl
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gjengedal
authors.forename: Berit Rokne
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Hanestad
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001828:Body Image; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology; D017281:Cost of Illness; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009664:Norway; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D011565:Psoriasis / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life; D012649:Self Concept; D012934:Social Isolation; D013240:Stereotyping