Unmet Needs in the Management of Moderate-to-Severe Psoriasis in Spain: A Multidimensional Evaluation

• Main Authors: Néboa Zozaya (Author), Renata Villoro (Author), Fernando Abdalla (Author), Santiago Alfonso Zamora (Author), Jesús Balea Filgueiras (Author), José Manuel Carrascosa Carrillo (Author), Olga Delgado Sánchez (Author), Francisco Dolz Sinisterra (Author), Antonio García-Ruiz (Author), Pedro Herranz Pinto (Author), Antonio Manfredi (Author), José Martínez Olmos (Author), Paloma Morales de los Ríos Luna (Author), Lluis Puig Sanz (Author), Sandra Ros (Author), Álvaro Hildago-Vega (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Medical Journals Sweden, 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary

Psoriasis is a chronic, systemic inflammatory disease that affects the skin, with a high impact on patients' quality of life. The aim of this study was to identify and determine the relative importance of unmet needs in the management of moderate-to-severe psoriasis in Spain, from a multi-stakeholder perspective. A mixed method-approach was used to collect information, design a questionnaire and a discrete-choice exercise, and elicit the unmet needs through a multidisciplinary committee composed of 12 experts. A total of 65 unmet needs were identified and categorized into 4 areas: clinical, patient-related, decision-making process, and social. Decision-making process unmet needs were perceived as the most pressing ones, followed by social, clinical and patient-related. Individually, the need to incorporate outcomes that are important to the patients and to have treatments that achieve total clearance with a rapid onset of action and long-term persistence were the most important unmet needs.

Item Description

10.2340/actadv.v102.583
0001-5555
1651-2057