Dermatologists should take ownership of screening patients for mental health concerns associated with their skin condition.
Skin conditions can lead to psychiatric disorders in 30 percent of patients, particularly adolescents, patients being treated for facial lesions and scars, patients suffering from insomnia or patients with severe or recalcitrant skin disease, wrote the authors of a Viewpoint article in JAMA Dermatology.
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