Prevalence of palmoplantar psoriasis and pustular psoriasis in children

Study type

• Study topic:
  Disease /health condition
• Study type:
  Non-interventional study
• Scope of the study:
  Disease epidemiology
• Data collection methods:
  Secondary use of data

Non-interventional study

• Non-interventional study design:
  Other
• Non-interventional study design, other:
  Descriptive study

Study drug and medical condition

• Medical condition to be studied:
  Palmoplantar pustulosis

  Pustular psoriasis

  Psoriasis

Population studied

• Short description of the study population:
  The study population involved children aged 0-17 years visiting general physician practices identified from IMRD databases between 2012 and 2021.
• Age groups:
  Term newborn infants (0 – 27 days)

  Infants and toddlers (28 days – 23 months)

  Children (2 to < 12 years)

  Adolescents (12 to < 18 years)
• Estimated number of subjects:
  600

Study design details

• Main study objective:
  The objective of this study was to estimate the yearly prevalence of palmoplantar and pustular psoriasis in children 0-17 years between 2012 and 2021, by age group (0-11 years and 12-17 years).
• Outcomes:
  palmoplantar and pustular psoriasis
• Data analysis plan:
  The prevalence was calculated using all children that were observable for at least one day during the year in the denominator. Children were included in the denominator according to their respective age group. Children were included in the numerator if they had a diagnosis of palmoplantar or pustular psoriasis during the year or earlier. Prevalence was calculated per 100,000 children

Documents

Study results

FINAL Report_Palmoplantar Psoriasis_202206_for publication_CLEAN