Psychosocial Aspect

Psychosocial aspect
A study conducted showed that 47.3% of patients felt self-conscious about their skin, 32.7% felt unattractive, and 23.6% felt their disorder distruped their everyday activities. Treatment with skin skin bleaching agents for instance , those mentioned in previous pages have shown beneficial effects on unfavorable psychosocial and health related quality of life issues.
Many studies have shown that a negative evaluation of the physical body can cause the development of body image disturbance or dissatisfaction.Body image disturbance (dysmorphophobia) is severe emotional distress experienced by someone with a negative body image, which impairs their daily psychosocial functioning (Cash, Phillips, Santos & Hrabosky, 2004)

Depression (which is also a common psychological problems frequently linked to patients with dermatological complaints) . Pigmentation disorders such as melasma , vitiligo, PIH, lentigo, and idiopathic guttate hypomelanosis, are prevalent and have been shown to significantly negatively iimpact on health-related quality of life.
. Skin color is an important faactor of body image perception. Respondents in this study indicated that after body skin complexion is the most important physical feature to them. Though several pigmentation disorders are treated with these skin treatments, they are more frequently used cosmeceutically to improve the appearance of the skin by bleaching it. The practice of skin bleaching and tanning are processes in which people change the color of their skin to alter their complexion. Tanners darken their skin while bleachers lighten their skin. Since body image disturbance occurs among some tanners it is important to see if body image disturbance also occurs among some of the people who lighten their skin .Skin bleaching surfaced as an increasingly popular cosmetic

According to reports, 75% of the population in Nigeria, 52–67% of the Senegalese population, 59% Togo, 25% Mali and 35% of south african women use skin-lightening products . A study in libya showed that patients who practiced the use of skin lightening products cosmetically usually presented particularly complex medical, social and emotional problems, where they are desperate for a solution and willing to pay anything . . Despite legislation banning harmful compounds, these compounds are still used in skin lightening formulations. The increase in skin-bleaching around the globe is a result of the merger between old ideologies of colonialism and race, and new technologies of the body (Hunter, 2005). The racist ideologies of race and color were an integral part of the European colonial experience (Charles, 2003). The large majority of scholars who examine skin bleaching at the very least acknowledge the institutions of colonialism and enslavement historically, and