TY - JOUR AU - P, Abhinitha AU - Gengatharan, Ravina Suloshini AU - Zulkiflee, Sarah AU - Ganisan, Purveena AU - Arumugam, Sitharrthen AU - Kumar, Naveen PY - 2018/12/30 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Acne and One‘s Self Confidence: Cross-sectional study on Malaysian Student population JF - Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science JA - Bangladesh J Med Sci VL - 18 IS - 1 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.3329/bjms.v18i1.39555 UR - https://www.banglajol.info/index.php/BJMS/article/view/39555 SP - 83-86 AB - <p><strong>Introduction</strong>: Self-confidence of an individual must be motivated by self without the inference of any internal or external consequences. Acne is a common skin defect among adolescents, and even in adults that can cause psychological weakness affecting one’s self-confidence level. The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of acne on the self-esteem of young adults of Malaysian student population.</p><p><strong>Materials and Method</strong><strong>: </strong>A cross-sectional survey was done using a newly developed questionnaire having majorly close ended (in 2-point scale) questions. Total of 185 Malaysian MBBS students were randomly chosen, and only 171 valid responses from the victims of acne were analyzed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among the students with acne problems, 88% of them opine that they lose their self-confidence due to the effect of acne. Out of this, 78% of them were preferred to associated with the people where as 22% of the students do not prefer to be involved with the individuals.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>From the results, it was found that acne significantly reduces self-confidence of a majority of students whereas a small group of participants does believe that acne does not describe them. Students with acne problems are more self-conscious and perform poorly in social life. It is regardless of the clinical severity of their acne. In conclusion, acne influences students’ ability in public affairs.</p><p>Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol.18(1) 2019 p.83-86</p> ER -