1. Keerthana Thatavarthi 3rd year M.B.B.S Manipal University India
STRESS, SELF-ESTEEM AND GENDER CONSCIOUSNESS IN LATE ADOLESCENTS AND EARLY ADULTS WITH ACNE AND HAIR FALL – AN EXPLORATORY STUDY
Keerthana Thatavarthi
3rd year M.B.B.S
Manipal University
India
Guided by-
Ms. Seemanthini T S
M.Phil PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Manipal University

2. Self-esteem represents judgement of self-worthiness.
INTRODUCTION
Stress is the nonspecific ‘wear and tear’ response of the body challenging homeostasis.
Gender consciousness is being aware of one’s gender role that has been affected by particular social expectation
Self-esteem represents judgement of self-worthiness.

3. The interplay between dermatology and psychiatry is of considerable importance.
No confirmed thesis to know if dermatological issues lead to psychological distress or vice versa
Hope to give new insights into the understanding of these psychological components in people with hair-fall and Acne.

4. OBJECTIVES
1. To explore the levels of Stress, Gender consciousness and self-esteem, in late adolescents and early adults with Acne and Hair fall .
2. To understand the correlation of Stress, Gender -consciousness and self-esteem among the late adolescents and Early adults with Acne and Hair fall.
3. To compare the level of stress, self esteem and gender consciousness between the clinical and normal control in Mangalore .

5. METHODOLOGY Study setting :
Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore and KMC Attavar Hospital
Study design :
Cross sectional study

6. Study group:
168 Female/male students in late adolescence or early adulthood with and without acne and hair-fall.
Study duration
3 months from 14th July to 14th September 2014.

7. TOOLS : COMPONENT SCALE AUTHORS The Holmes and Rahe Stress –scale.
Dr. Thomas Holmes and Dr. Richard Rahe
2. The Self-Esteem Scale
Dr. Rosenberg
3. The Multidimensional Gender Consciousness Questionnaire
Dr. William E. Snell, Jr. and Dr. Georgette Johnson

8. Statistical analysis:
Data analyzed using SPSS version 17.0
Pearson co-efficient technique was used to study the correlation and Chi-square test for association.
‘p’ value < 0.05 : statistically significant
Ethical
considerations:
The study was approved by Institutional Ethics Committee

9. RESULTS

10. Distribution of Hair fall and Acne in the population
Figure 1: Depicts the distribution of hair fall and acne in the study population

11. Reasons perceived by study population for hair-fall and acne:
Figure 2: Depicts the perceived reasons of study population

12. Stress levels in study population with and without hair fall/acne: (N=168 )
Figure 3: Depicts the stress levels in study population

13. Self esteem levels in study population with and without hair fall/acne : ( N=168)
Figure 4: Depicts the perceived reasons of study population

14. Gender-consciousness levels in study population with and without hair fall/acne : (N =168)
Figure 5: Depicts the Gender consciousness levels of study population

15. Correlation between stress, gender-consciousness and self-esteem levels: ( N= 168)
Pearson co-efficient 1
0.013
0.004
p value
0.870
0.959
0.266**
0.000
Gender consciousness
Pearson co-efficient

16. CONCLUSION
A significant relation between hair-fall and stress levels was found . About three-quarters of the study sample without Abnormal hair-fall have low stress levels.
More than half of them positive for both acne and hair fall were assessed to have moderate to high stress levels

17. More than half of the population with abnormal hair-fall/Acne/both were found to have a low self-esteem level which meets the hypothesis.
A significant positive correlation was found between the levels of stress and gender consciousness

18. DISCUSSION
Relationship with stress, self-esteem and the gender consciousness have shown the requirement of better treatment model which addresses the psychological bearing on the acne and hair fall.
The integration of stress-coping strategies into the management of hair loss and acne disorders is also important.
There were high number of subjects with unsafe sputum disposal practices.
Also awareness about the causation, spread and control measures was low.
This demands a culturally sensitive method to increase awareness among people and provide increased access to safer methods of sputum disposal.

19. There was limited coverage, since study was conducted in just one college.
Compounding factors such as participants’ current emotional state or personality may be present.

20. SCOPE IN FUTURE 1. Need for audit and research.
2. Some health care professionals lack awareness of the psychosocial impact of appearance concerns.
3. Model of treatment package which includes psychotherapy.

21. FUNDING
Short Term Studentship, Indian Council of Medical Research, New Delhi, India.
Grant ref. no :

22. THANK YOU !

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