Public views are needed for skin colour scales

Public views are needed for skin colour scales

Our public engagement exercise showed that the Fitzpatrick Scale does not adequately represent how members of the public consider their own skin. Descriptions offered by respondents regarding their skin tone were richly varied; some also indicated that structured and embedded inequalities affected t...

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Veröffentlicht in:British journal of dermatology (1951) 2023-10, Vol.189 (5), p.623-624
Hauptverfasser: Lax, Stephanie J, Roberts, Amanda, Cliffe, Eleanor, Ramesh, Grishma, Ayodele, Dija, Williams, Hywel C, Belmo, Sharon, Leighton, Paul
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Our public engagement exercise showed that the Fitzpatrick Scale does not adequately represent how members of the public consider their own skin. Descriptions offered by respondents regarding their skin tone were richly varied; some also indicated that structured and embedded inequalities affected the language they used. The patient voice is key to developing comprehensive, inclusive and widely understood tools.
ISSN:0007-0963
1365-2133
DOI:10.1093/bjd/ljad189