Abstract
Relationship between stress and skin symptoms is often seen in the treatment of patients with atopic dermatitis. Especially, most cases that make resistance to ordinary dermatological treatment have psychosomatic aspect. However, the psychosomatic diagnosis and treatment of them are not well known to dermatologists. In order to help such medical treatment, “Psychosomatic questionnaire for atopic dermatitis patients” was made by the Japanese society of atopic dermatitis treatment and “Psychosomatic scale of atopic dermatitis” was made in the guidelines of the diagnosis and treatment for psychosomatic diseases by the psycho-neurological disease trust research of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. These two questionnaires showed that a distinction rate, reliability and validity were about 70% with statistical analyses. We herewith introduce these two questionnaires.
