Abstract
Dermatoses vary from country to country and region to region. There are very few studies on epidemiological pattern of dermatosis. The pattern of dermatoses serve as an index of community development and quality of health care provision .A hospital based descriptive observational study was conducted in a tertiary centre , which is a teaching institution in the public sector in central Kerala, among adults who attended the dermatology outpatient department for a period of six months. The participants in the study were given a validated semi structured interview schedule in which sociodemographic variables such as age, sex, religion, educational qualification marital status, socioeconomic status, occupation and diagnosis on dermatoses were captured .The data collected was then entered and analysed .Non-infectious dermatoses were more compared to infectious dermatoses . Among infectious dermatoses fungal infections were the commonest and among non-infectious dermatoses eczemas were the commonest .More than half of the patients belonged to the 18 to 36 category. Females outnumbered males in the total op attendees. More than ninety percent of study population were literate and majority were students and unemployed .Less than threefourths of the participants were married and two thirds were above the poverty line. Majority of them were Muslims and resided in villages .However educational status and occupation did not have a significant influence on the pattern of dermatoses. Early diagnosis and management can prevent the spread of infectious dermatoses thereby reduce the burden of dermatoses in the society
Keywords: Epidemiology pattern, Dermatoses.
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Corresponding Author
Dr Deepa Augustine
Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, Government Medical College, Ernakulam, Kerala, India
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v7i7.147
