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Table 1.

How AD affects children’s friendships, self-consciousness, and social life and leads to teasing and bullying according to the CDLQI results (each CDLQI question is answered on a four-point Likert scale scored from 0 to 3⁴⁵) in different studies.¹²,⁴⁶–⁵²

CDLQI items	Singapore¹²	Czech Republic¹²	Italy¹²	Ukraine¹²	UK⁴⁶	Malaysia⁴⁷	UK⁴⁸	Sweden⁴⁹	Korea⁵⁰	Turkey⁵¹	Iran⁵²
How embarrassed or self-conscious, upset, or sad have you been because of your skin?	0.89±0.87	1.18±0.98	0.66±0.94	1.23±1.10	1.2^a	1.1^a	0.4^a	0.86± 0.93	0.9±0.9	1.00±1.03	2.4^a
How much has your skin affected your friendships?	0.57±0.65	0.30±0.65	0.26±0.60	0.80±0.95	0.3^a	0.8^a	0.2^a	NA	0.5±0.8	0.58±0.83	2.7^a
How much has your skin trouble affected going out, playing, or doing hobbies?	1.06±1.00	0.72±0.95	0.24±0.71	1.16±1.06	0.8^a	1.0^a	0.5^a	NA	0.6±0.8	0.56±0.78	2.4^a
How much trouble have you had because of your skin with other people calling you names, teasing, bullying, asking questions, or avoiding you?	1.17±0.87	0.44±0.64	0.32±0.77	0.95±0.91	0.3^a	1.6^a	0.3^a	NA	0.4±0.7	0.16±0.54	2.2^a

Note:

Numeric data were adopted from figure and are approximate values. Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation.

Abbreviations: AD, atopic dermatitis; CDLQI, Children Dermatology Life Quality Index; NA, not available.