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Abstract
Psoriasis is a lifelong inflammatory skin illness that may have an new Serious Consequences on a patient’s quality of life. An immune-mediated inflammatory disease. Quality of life (QOL) serves as a sensitive measure to evaluate a patient's health status after receiving treatment and assessing the overall impact of the treatment on their well-being. Aim: the survey was n proposed to estimate the quality of life of a group of persons who have Psoriasis, also for explore potential connections between different components of quality of life (such as physical, psychological, social, and environmental health) and specific factors related to the patients. Method: A 50 patients with Psoriasis are included in the study. The world health Organizations quality of life assessment (WHOQOL-BREEF), short style questionnaire was used to evaluate quality of life after being revised and transformed to regional Arabic language. the patients were selected based on their accessibility and availability to the researchers. The mean age of the patients in the study was ( 32.98 ± 6.209). The study was conducted at AL Hussein Teaching Hospital / dermatology department in thi-qar city between November 2023 to March 2024. The questionnaire covers four main domains (26 questions ): Physical Health, Psychological Well-being, Social Relationships, Environmental domain, Each domain contains several questions that collectively measure that specific aspect of quality of life. Result: The response rate was 100 %. Female were 32 while 18 were males. For overall QOL, Very poor (34%), Poor (62%) and Neither poor nor good (4%). For physical activity domain (Mean =.35 ± 4.79) ; and the social health domain (Mean = 21.00 ± 14.60), Psychological health (35.58 ± 3.38 ), Environmental health (44.31 ± 11.23). The total mean score was 36.31, as described as poor. In univariate analysis, age was inversely correlated with both QOL-psychological health and QOL-social health. Gender was inversely associated with all components of QOL except psychological health, where there was no correlation. Furthermore, Higher education levels were inversely associated with all components of QOL except social health, where there was no correlation. In multivariate analysis, only the age was inversely linked to psychological domain. Educational level were inversely linked to physical and psychological health. Gender was inversely linked to all components of QOL except psychological health, where there was no correlation. In Conclusion: QOL of Psoriasis patients with were poor and this condition influence social domain by the first degree, psychological activity and environmental domains are also slightly affected, the physical health domain is slightly affected. Also, It was concluded that in patients with psoriasis, age have inverse relationship with psychological health, Education level have inverse relationship with physical and psychological health, Gender have inverse relationship with all components of QOL except psychological health, where there was no correlation.