Psoriasis is a chronic painful skin disease with a 3% world prevalence.
The studies framed in Quality-of-Life concept, evaluate therapeutic strategies leaving aside the aspects of daily life that are related to clinical outcomes which are relevant to understand how patients cope adverse situations.
People with psoriasis as a stigmatizing illness experience social rejection throughout their life, this can lead to anticipated evasive attitude and isolation.
"Experience” is considered as a self-identity building process in self-body, so patients with psoriasis embody their subjective experience and thus register in the social world determined by the limitations due to their illness; likewise, they can redirect towards salutogenesis as an ability to build satisfying experiences developing a Sense of Coherence using their own sources and having a perception of health and welfare, so the Narrative Medicine is a valuable component in the study of meanings (which determine actions) based in Reflexive Anthropology and focuses on intertwining the subjective experience of illness with the socio-cultural framework.
Psoriasis, usually have improvement or relapse periods so it is important to identify the salutogenic practices patients individually adopt to heal.
Studies about acceptance of living with psoriasis demonstrate that it is positively related to social support perception and not to clinical severity, this evidenciates the importance of transdisciplinary approach of health.
“Stigma” is the most relevant demonstrated component of living with psoriasis. Lack of social support and feeling worthless are the most frequent negative experience categories; social support as well as spirituality are decisive in the experience of improvement, which gives us a horizon of action directed to health condition.
Through the eyes of socio-medicine, healthcare professionals can give a more, comprehensive, humane, and suitable care.
We develop qualitative hermeneutic research using illness narratives to understand the experience of living with psoriasis in adult Mexican population.
