Inclusive Care in Alopecia: Beyond Diagnosis
Transcript: The “huge” psychosocial impact of AA
Dr. Yolanda Lenzy
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This is huge. There's been many studies that have documented that alopecia areata and hair loss in general can have a significant impact on a patient's psychosocial life than cancer, which is, you know, more life threatening. So, because it's visible, it can happen in children, it can have a significant impact on a person's psychosocial ability just worrying. Even going outside, if the wind is gonna blow their hair in a certain direction and expose the area of alopecia areata, all of these things.
Some people have anxiety around going to work because they have to spend a significant amount of time trying to cover the area. And then, some patients they have so much hair loss that they can no longer cover it because it's just patchy everywhere. And so, that's another thing that impacts someone's ability to work. Stress really around people finding out. Especially with kids, you know, some of them want to wear a hat and we have to write a note sometimes that this person has a diagnosis and we would like the school to give them permission to be able to wear their hat in school. So it's just a lot of psychosocial issues that can come up as a result of having a condition that can be readily seen by everyone.
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