Sustainability of the lifeworld of patients with atopic dermatitis as a predictor of disease recurrence

Introduction. During the last fifty years, the number of patients with atopic dermatitis, a psychosomatic disease, has increased throughout the world. This fact makes relevant the study aimed at establishing the relationship between a degree of stability in the lifeworld and the frequency of disease recurrence in patients with atopic dermatitis. Materials and methods. The study involved 60 patients with atopic dermatitis: 36 women and 24 men aged 25 to 50 years. The study duration was 4 months. The following methods were used for the purpose of the study: the stability of a man’s lifeworld by I.O. Loginova, the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI), the Shapiro-Wilk test of normality. Results. The results obtained demonstrated that people with a constructive and stagnant type of stability in the lifeworld are less prone to recurrences of atopic dermatitis. Conclusion. Thus, patients with an unconstructive nature of the stability require psychological assistance aimed at forming an adequate health-saving strategy.