Table 1.

Characteristics of patients with scalp seborrhoeic dermatitis after 10 weeks of treatment using a calcipotriol plus betamethasone dipropionate gel^* (N = 32)

Variable	Mean ± SD		P value
	Patients with complete clearance/marked improvement† (n = 28)	Patients with mild/moderate improvement† (n = 4)
Age in years	35.2 ± 7.2	39.8 ± 2.1	0.224
Illness duration in months	11.5 ± 7.1	21.0 ± 11.5	0.032
Itching score‡	5.9 ± 1.2	8.0 ± 1.2	0.001
Discomfort score‡	5.3 ± 1.0	8.3 ± 1.0	<0.001

SD = standard deviation.

^*Daily Xamiol^® gel (Leo Laboratories Ltd., Ballerup, Denmark).

^†Assessed by an attending dermatologist using the Physician Global Assessment Scale as either 0 (almost clear), 1 (mild), 2 (moderate), 3 (severe) or 4 (very severe).8

^‡Self-reported by patients using a visual analogue scale on a scale of 0 (no symptoms) to 10 (most severe).