User:C.h.lee.ucsf/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
"Pityrosporum folliculitis during pregnancy: A possible cause of pruritic folliculitis of pregnancy" Parlak et al. 2005

https://www.jaad.org/article/S0190-9622(04)02509-5/fulltext

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I initially chose this article because it is published in a reputable journal, Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, with an impact factor of 11.53. In addition, pruritic folliculitis of pregnancy is a rare condition, which before 2005 was only reported once in literature. There is no research done to understand the etiology of how this skin condition occurs in pregnancy, and this article provides insight on its pathophysiology through a case study that attempted to further investigate how this condition develops.

Evaluate the article
This condition already does not have much information or research conducted to better understand its pathophysiology for treatment. The author in this article was very concise and informative with the lead-in, introducing the topic and why it is important to investigate how it develops in pregnant patients.

Regarding content, it was the most up-to-date at the time it was written (2005), but it only included one case study into a possible etiology behind the development of pruritic folliculitis of pregnancy. Since it only describes the outcomes of one patient with this condition, there are still some gaps to be filled and next steps that need to be taken to provide a fuller picture of this condition.

Regarding tone and balance, the author’s tone appears to be neutral but there might be some biases to focus studying this condition in patients who identify as women. Although this article is meant to include only one case study, it would be useful to see biopsies from more patients and pregnant patients who do not identify as women. However, this article was written almost two decades ago when diversity, equity, and inclusion was not as vocalized as it is now.

This article referenced seven sources which are reliable secondary sources or information based on where they were published, but they were all written between 1980-2000. This article was published in 2005 which is a significant amount of time after these references were published. There are other articles we found that appear more reliable; however, since the start of the discussion of pruritic folliculitis in pregnancy, there are still very minimal sources and articles available on this topic today in 2022.

C.h.lee.ucsf (talk) 17:19, 5 August 2022 (UTC)