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Stria GravidarumOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Stria gravidarum or what is known as stretch marks is considered a very common dermatological benign issue in pregnancy that predominantly occur on the skin of the anterior abdominal wall but could appear at other sites such as thighs and breasts. It influences the psychological wellbeing and consequently the quality of life. Although the underlying cause for stretch marks is still not fully elucidated, it‟s a condition that reduces the quality of beauty in the back mind of many females.
The aim of this questionnaire based study to assess the quality of life affection as regards emotions, symptoms and functioning by presence of stria gravidarum in 323 pregnant females aged 25-40 years with Davey’s score, the severity of stria gravidarum was divided into three categories, 0 (absent), 1 to 2 (mild), 3 to 8 (severe).
Sociodemographic characterstics (age, residence, occupation, education, height and weight before and during pregnancy, weight change during pregnancy, income and Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) questionare were recorded.
Our results showed that:
Regarding the dermatology life quality index, 141 primiparae (43.7%) and 182 multiparae (56.3%) participants fulfilled the questionare , of mean age of total participants 42.4% of the cases had a little pain in last week, 51.7 % had a lot embarrassment, 27.6 % had a lot difficulties in usual activities, 51.7% had a lot concern regarding choosing clothes, 52.3 % had a lot of difficulties in social activities, 52.3 % of them had little effect in participating in sports training and
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96.6% had no effect on studying or working and 51.7 % had a lot of sexual difficulties.
The mean value of DLQI was 16.09±2.91 (ranged 10-23). 79.3% of our cases had a large effect on life quality as DLQI score was (11 – 20), 15.8 % had a very large effect as DLQI score was (21 – 30) and only 5.0% had a moderate effect as DLQI score was (6 – 10).
The prevalence and the severity of stria gravidarum according to Davey‟s score showed that there is significant difference between severity of SG between primiparae and multiparae, severe stria gravidarum score was observed in 20.6% of primiparae cases and 54.9 % of multiparae cases, mild stria gravidarum score was observed in 79.4 % of primiparae cases and 45.1 % of multiparae cases.
There was significant difference in DLQI mean value between different davey’s score scale.
There is significant difference regarding DLQI of pregnant women who did or did not take preventive steps.
There is significant difference regarding association between parity and DLQI.