Inflammatory skin disorders and self-esteem

Self-esteem and depressive symptomatology in children with somatoform disorders.

This study investigated levels of self-esteem and self-reported depressive symptomatology in a sample of children diagnosed with somatoform disorder. The somatoform sample, a sample of children with depressive disorders, and a sample of children with no DSM-III-R diagnosis differed significantly on measures of depression and self-esteem. Specifically, the somatoform group consistently scored be...

Social and Body Self-esteem in Adolescents with Eating Disorders

The aim of the present study was to analyze social and body self-esteem in adolescents with eating disorders and to assess the psychometric properties of the SEED (Self-esteem in Eating Disorders), a self-report questionnaire designed specifically to evaluate these variables. The SEED was used to compare social and body self-esteem in 170 eating disorder adolescent patients, 115 with anorexia n...

Self-esteem, social adjustment and suicidality in affective disorders.

Self-esteem (SE) and social adjustment (SA) are often impaired during the course of affective disorders; this impairment is associated with suicidal behaviour. The aim of the present study was to investigate SE and SA in unipolar or bipolar patients in relation to demographic and clinical characteristics, especially the presence of suicidality (ideation and/or attempt). Forty-four patients, 28 ...

Macrolides in Chronic Inflammatory Skin Disorders

Long-term therapy with the macrolide antibiotic erythromycin was shown to alter the clinical course of diffuse panbronchiolitis in the late 1980s. Since that time, macrolides have been found to have a large number of anti-inflammatory properties in addition to being antimicrobials. These observations provided the rationale for many studies performed to assess the usefulness of macrolides in oth...

Cathelicidins role in skin inflammatory disorders