Table 3.

6-Item Stigmatization Scale and Spearman’s rho correlation coefficients between the age of the study participants

6-Item Stigmatization Scale	Always n/%	Very often n/%	Sometimes n/%	Not at all n/%	Mean ± SD [points]	Age (rho)
Other people sometimes make annoying comments about my skin disease	11/9.2	36/30.0	54/45.0	19/15.8	1.33 ±0.84	–0.15
Other people think that my skin disease is contagious	19/15.8	44/36.7	41/34.2	16/13.3	1.58 ±0.90	–0.19
Others are not attracted to me due to my skin disease	21/17.5	48/40.0	42/35.0	9/7.5	1.68 ±0.85	0.11
I think that others stare at my skin disease	30/25.0	46/38.3	34/28.3	10/8.3	1.80 ±0.91	0.07
Other people avoid me due to my skin disease	14/11.7	47/39.2	35/29.2	24/20.0	1.43 ±0.94	–0.18
Others feel uncomfortable touching me due to my skin disease	54/45.0	28/23.3	27/22.5	11/9.2	2.04 ±1.02	–0.26