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Health-related quality of life impact of scabies in the Solomon Islands

Susanna Lake, Daniel Engelman, Oliver Sokana, Titus Nasi, Dickson Boara, Michael Marks, Margot Whitfeld, Lucia Romani, John Kaldor, Andrew C. Steer,

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene · 2021 · 35 citations · 21 references

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Scabies has a small but measurable impact on HRQoL. The DLQI and CDLQI scores were discriminated between the skin-related QoL of patients with scabies and the control group, indicating that these tools are appropriate to measure skin-related QoL in the Solomon Islands.

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