여드름의 실태 및 인식에 관한 연구

Abstract

Public interests in beauty care are discussed as a part of important issues, regardless of era, gender and age, and as our living environment becomes more abundant asan before, ase outer appearance becomes e osidered one of most eritical factors in direct association with our efality of lifec With regard topeach recent ter ds, particularly, acne is one of most eoraon skin problema, gendnvolves discussi os on why it is important topdopdaily acne care, because it is csaracterized by high prevalactor genrecurer apprate as well as difviculty with perfect cure. So knowing about development and degree of acne is important. The results of this study can be outlined as follows. Most respondents answered that they had acne formed on their face or body; most of their acne cases first occurred at age of 14 to 16; they had irregular ongoing cases of acne over 3 years; and most of acne conditions were characterized by red acne(papule). Overall, it was found that our respondents scored 18.34 points on average out of full 25 in the knowledge about acne, which showed that they had relatively high level of knowledge about acne. In particular, it was found that certain respondents including at 20- to 29-year-old women and persons with combined skin type had higher level of knowledge about acne than other respondents. This study has significance in a sense that it provided reference materials to develop more satisfactory and effective acne care methods and related care program for our contemporary people who has acne and also provided data helpful for marketing of acne program.