Abstract

The study involved 80 vitiligo patients in Iraq from April 2022 to September 2024, using the VitiQoL index to assess their quality of life where. Patients scored parts of their body using specific areas and completed a detailed questionnaire on disease progression and treatment. The dermatologist was the principal investigator during these sessions. The study investigates the correlation between patients’ quality of life and vitiligo and the body image of vitiligo patients based on demographic variables such as gender, education, age, marital status, economic status, location, and infection duration. The research also explores the predictive value of body image in vitiligo patients through psychological hardiness. The study involved taking photographs of lesions and evaluating disease severity using the vitiligo extent score (VES). The Mean and standard deviation of age patients were 28.5 ± 8.5, where is there a significant relationship between the VASI score and age of patients with P-value <0.05 and also a significant relationship between VASI score and sex of patients with P-value 0.044 where in this study we found Concomitant psychiatric problems,  anxiety, and depression, were associated with QOL. Iraqi patients suffer greatly as a result of how vitiligo affects their quality of life because it carries with it much social stigma, discriminatory practices as well as psychological distress, which go hand in hand with this phenotype. Vitiligo causes self-disparagements