Assessment of life quality in high school students with acne disease in Ghazvin

Dermatological disease affects quality of life in all ages specially children and adolescence. This study was aimed to determine quality of life in students with acne disease. Overall, 400 students of high school who had acne were selected. Data were gathered with two standardized acne quality of life questionnaire (CADI and CDLQI) analysis was used with chi-square and spear mans rho test. The mean age of the students was 15.8 ± 1 and 48.4 % and 51.6% of them were male and female, respectively. 31.2% of responders had high level aggression and13.7% had problems in their social activities. In addition, 30.8 % said they had depression feeling because of acne. The relation between sex and QOL wasn’t significant. But the relation between parents’ education and QOL was significant, statistically (p=0.001). Acne can affect social, educational, recreational and psychological functions.