Sarcouncil Journal of Medicine and Surgery

Abstract: As defined Hand eczema (HE) is a widespread dermatological condition that severely affects patients' quality of life where our This study sets out to analyze the demographic, clinical, and psychosocial characteristics of hand eczema patients in Iraq and designed according to A cross-sectional study conducted from January 2024 to January 2025 included 280 patients from Al-Najaf Teaching Hospital and Al-Sadr Teaching Hospital in Najaf Governorate, with Participants were 18 years old and above with a clinically established hand eczema diagnosis where in our paper were Excluding conditions were given for active infection currently on immunosuppressants systemically, and complicated skin conditions in addition to Data were collected from structured interviews, medical records, clinical assessments to assess demographic and clinical information, psychological assessment, and quality of life by DLQI in addition to were Eczema severity was assessed by using the SCORAD index, through our outcomes found The average age of participants was 34.2±11.2 moreover The most frequent types of eczema were irritant contact eczema (50.0%) and allergic contact eczema (32.1%), were also Upon assessment of severity, 42.9% were mildly affected, 39.3% moderately affected, and 17.8% severely affected while found also Psychological analysis revealed that 75% reported some anxiety or depression, with 28.6% experiencing moderate to severe symptoms in contrast Diabetes (OR 2.0), smoking (OR 1.8), and food allergen sensitivity (OR 1.6) were established through logistic regression as risk factors associated with an exacerbation of severity so finally The findings warrant increased research on the psychosocial aspect of eczema, with larger samples and randomization of great importance for validating the present study.