Insights From Caregivers on the Impact of Pediatric Atopic Dermatitis on Families: “I’m Tired, Overwhelmed, and Feel Like I’m Failing as a Mother”
Open accessAbstract
BACKGROUND: The impact of pediatric atopic dermatitis (AD) on families is largely hidden from view, and AD is commonly misunderstood as a minor skin condition. Few studies have examined the full burden of AD from the family perspective. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to assess the burden of AD on children and families using a caregiver-centered survey. METHODS: A 72-item anonymous online survey was posted on social media sites targeted to or composed of parents of children with AD. It explored the following 9 domains of impact: sleep, social isolation, time requirements, life decisions, family relationship dynamics, energy/fatigue, mental health impacts, and unmet treatment needs. Atopic dermatitis severity was reported by respondents using the Patient-Oriented Eczema Measure. Statistical analyses were conducted using R 3.6.0. RESULTS: Two hundred thirty-five individuals completed the survey during the 1-month period that it was promoted via social media. Caregivers reported frequent sleep disturbance, exhaustion, worry, and social isolation related to their child's AD. CONCLUSIONS: Results highlight the need for psychosocial support and respite care for caregivers of children with AD.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
The quality of life of parents of children with eczema is often immensely impacted.
“Given the time-consuming and exhausting nature of caring for children with eczema and the resulting adverse mental health outcomes, the quality of life of parents is often immensely impacted [20].”
Cites
The Patient-Oriented Eczema Measure
Charman, C. R., Venn, A. J., & Williams, H. C. (2004) · Archives of Dermatology · doi:10.1001/archderm.140.12.1513 · Cited by 660 · see citing works
Beattie, P. E., & Lewis-Jones, M. S. (2006) · British Journal of Dermatology · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2133.2006.07185.x · Cited by 526 · see citing works
LEWIS-JONES, S. (2006) · International Journal of Clinical Practice · doi:10.1111/j.1742-1241.2006.01047.x · Cited by 478 · see citing works
Patient perspectives on the management of atopic dermatitis
Zuberbier, T., Orlow, S. J., Paller, A. S., Taı̈eb, A., Allen, R., Hermosa, J. M. H., Ocampo‐Candiani, J., Cox, M., Langeraar, J., & Simon, J. C. (2006) · Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology · doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2006.02.031 · Cited by 341 · see citing works
Effects of Atopic Dermatitis on Young American Children and Their Families
Chamlin, S. L., Frieden, I. J., Williams, M. L. K., & Chren, M. (2004) · PEDIATRICS · doi:10.1542/peds.2004-0374 · Cited by 316 · see citing works
Psychosocial adjustment in preschool children with atopic eczema.
Daud, L. R., Garralda, M. E., & David, T. J. (1993) · Archives of Disease in Childhood · doi:10.1136/adc.69.6.670 · Cited by 203 · see citing works
Chamlin, S. L., Mattson, C. L., Frieden, I. J., Williams, M. L. K., Mancini, A. J., Cella, D. F., & Chren, M. (2005) · Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine · doi:10.1001/archpedi.159.8.745 · Cited by 186 · see citing works
The impact of pediatric atopic dermatitis on families: A review
Yang, E., Beck, K. M., Sekhon, S., Bhutani, T., & Koo, J. Y. M. (2018) · Pediatric Dermatology · doi:10.1111/pde.13727 · Cited by 117 · see citing works
Childhood Atopic Dermatitis Impact Scale
Chamlin, S. L., Lai, J., Cella, D. F., Frieden, I. J., Williams, M. L. K., Mancini, A. J., & Chren, M. (2007) · Archives of Dermatology · doi:10.1001/archderm.143.6.768 · Cited by 70 · see citing works
Sleep Disturbance in Caregivers of Children With Respiratory and Atopic Disease
Meltzer, L. J., & Booster, G. D. (2016) · Journal of Pediatric Psychology · doi:10.1093/jpepsy/jsw016 · Cited by 54 · see citing works
Angelhoff, C., Askenteg, H., Ulrica, W., & Edéll‐Gustafsson, U. (2018) · Journal of Pediatric Nursing · doi:10.1016/j.pedn.2018.07.005 · Cited by 32 · see citing works
Short stature in children with atopic eczema.
David, T. J. (1989) · PubMed · doi:10.2340/000155551444144 · Cited by 24 · see citing works
Flagged first, then by citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Chong, Y. Y., Kwan, J. Y. M., Yau, P. T., Cheng, H. Y., & Chien, W. T. (2023) · Healthcare · doi:10.3390/healthcare11202708 · Cited by 6 · see citing works
“Given the time-consuming and exhausting nature of caring for children with eczema and the resulting adverse mental health outcomes, the quality of life of parents is often immensely impacted [20].”
Background
- Authors
- Capozza, K., Gadd, H., Kelley, K., Russell, S., Shi, V., & Schwartz, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Arizona (US)
- University of Illinois Chicago (US)
- Corresponding author
- Capozza, Korey
- Venue
- Dermatitis
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2020-02-22
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 223-227
- ISSN
- 1710-3568 (ISSN-L)
- 2162-5220
- OpenAlex
- W3007523462
- Cited by
- 62
- References
- 12
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3
- FWCI
- 7.01
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- hdl.handle.net
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Dermatitis (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona) (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Sanofi
- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
- Sanofi Genzyme
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Dermatology › Dermatology and Skin Diseases
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Pharmacy › Nursing care and research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Family and Disability Support Research
- Keywords
- pediatric atopic dermatitis, caregiver burden, family impact, parental stress, sleep disorders, social isolation, caregiver fatigue, mental health, psychosocial support, respite care, unmet treatment needs, Patient-Oriented Eczema Measure
- MeSH terms
- Psychosocial Support Systems, Caregiver Burden, Anxiety, Child, Child, Preschool, Dermatitis, Atopic, Family Relations, Fatigue, Female, Humans, Infant, Male, Parents, Severity of Illness Index, Sleep, Social Isolation, Time Factors, Cost of Illness, Needs Assessment
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
