- Taking care of a child with moderate to severe eczema involves compliance with a rigorous skin treatment regime, adjustments to family lifestyle, and financial and social costs, which all can place substantial demands on the caregivers.
- Compared with other chronic illnesses, research indicated that parents of children with eczema experienced higher level of stress and depression, greater sleep disturbance, disruption of daily routines, poorer health, unstable emotions, reduced social activities and decreased quality of life. Given the unpredictability of flares and chronicity of disease course, eczema has shown to have greater impacts in lower income families whose access to public health care services is limited.
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