All Outputs (3)

Establishing the financial burden of alopecia areata and its predictors (2023)
Journal Article
Zucchelli, F., Harries, M., Messenger, A., & Montgomery, K. (2024). Establishing the financial burden of alopecia areata and its predictors. Skin Health and Disease, 4(1), Article e301. https://doi.org/10.1002/ski2.301

Background: Alopecia areata (AA) can have a significant impact on wellbeing. Consequently, individuals with AA often seek treatments or products to promote hair regrowth or camouflage their hair loss that incur a financial cost to the individual. Obj... Read More about Establishing the financial burden of alopecia areata and its predictors.

Men’s experiences of alopecia areata: A qualitative study (2022)
Journal Article
Zucchelli, F., Sharratt, N., Montgomery, K., & Chambers, J. (2022). Men’s experiences of alopecia areata: A qualitative study. Health Psychology Open, 9(2), 20551029221121524. https://doi.org/10.1177/20551029221121524

Alopecia areata (AA) affects men at similar rates to women, yet comparatively little is known about men’s experience of the condition. We interviewed a demographically diverse group of 18 men with AA to explore this gap. From qualitative thematic ana... Read More about Men’s experiences of alopecia areata: A qualitative study.

‘My face in someone else’s hands’: A qualitative study of medical tattooing in women with hair loss (2021)
Journal Article
Stock, N. M., Sharratt, N. D., Treneman-Evans, G., Montgomery, K., Denman, R., Harcourt, D., & at the Centre for Appearance Research, T. V. R. T. (2022). ‘My face in someone else’s hands’: A qualitative study of medical tattooing in women with hair loss. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 27(7), 1431-1442. https://doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2021.1883688

The psychological and social impact of hair loss and its ongoing treatment can be considerable. Medical treatments are not always successful, and alternative treatments, such as medical tattooing, are growing in popularity. The aims of this study wer... Read More about ‘My face in someone else’s hands’: A qualitative study of medical tattooing in women with hair loss.