Health‐related quality of life in paediatric patients with vitiligo: a systematic review and meta‐analysis.

Furthermore, the most utilized dermatology-specific tool (CDLQI) emphasizes the assessment of physical symptoms and functioning, whereas vitiligo's greatest burden is in the emotional domain. Articles were included if they were original research papers written in English that reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in vitiligo patients under age 20. It is difficult to assess the true disease burden of vitiligo with such variability in QoL assessment tools. [Extracted from the article]