114 Copyright © 2013, SOCIETY FOR MERIDIAN AND ACUPOINT KOREAN JOURNAL OF A CUPUNCTURE ORIGINAL ARTICLE pISSN 2287-3368 / eISSN 2287-3376 Korean Journal of Acupuncture Vol.30, No.2, pp.114-121, 2013 Received May 24, 2013, Revised June 12, 2013, Accepted June 13, 2013 Corresponding author: Younbyoung Chae Acupuncture & Meridian Science Research Center, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University, 1 Hoegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul 130-701, Korea Tel: +82-2-961-2208, Fax: +82-2-963-2175, E-mail: ybchae@khu.ac.kr This research was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Republic of Korea(No. 2005-0049404). CC This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 염증성 여드름 환자에 대한 침 치료 효과와 신체이미지 인식에 대한 연구 이아름ㆍ이인선ㆍ김송이ㆍ이향숙ㆍ박히준ㆍ이혜정ㆍ채윤병 경희대학교 침구경락과학연구센터 Effect of Acupuncture on Inflammatory Lesions and Body Image Disturbance in Patients with Acne Vulgaris Ah-Reum Lee, In-Seon Lee, SongYi Kim, Hyangsook Lee, Hi-Joon Park, Hyejung Lee, Younbyoung Chae Acupuncture and Meridian Science Research Center, College of Korean Medicine, Kyung Hee University Objectives : The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of acupuncture treatment on the inflammatory lesions and body image disturbances in patients with vulgaris acnes. Methods : Fifteen inflammatory acne patients were enrolled and treated with facial acupuncture during 4 treatment sessions. We evaluated the number of papules and nodules using the Korean Acne Grading System (KAGS). We also evaluated patients’ general subjective satisfaction and objective changes of inflammatory acnes symptoms using DermaVision-pro. Moreover, we observed the skin quality-of-life scale with skindex-29 and body image disturbance questionnaire (BIDQ) as secondary outcome. Adverse events were recorded as well at every visit. Results : After 4 treatment sessions, there were significant reductions in the number of papules and nodules of the patients. We found that subjective satisfactions of patients were enhanced as well as the objective inflammatory symptoms. We also found significant improvements in the quality of life and BIDQ. No serious treatment-related adverse events were reported. Conclusions : This study demonstrated that standardized facial acupuncture were effective and safe in the treatment of facial inflammatory acnes. Key words : acupuncture, body image change, skindex-29, vulgaris acnes 서 론 여드름은 털피지샘에 생하는 만성 염증질환이다. 여드름은 피 부 질환 중 가장 유률이 높아 10대 및 20대에서는 80%에 이르는 것으로 알려져 있으며, 성인형 여드름의 경우 중년까지 지속적으로 생하는 경우도 있다 1) . 여드름의 일차적인 증상인 통증, 홍, 열 감 및 부종은 일시적인 생리 현상으로 간주될 수도 있다. 그러나 고름 물집이나 결절과 같은 피부상의 깊은 이 생한 경우 치 유된 후에 이차적으로 신체에 영구적인 흔을 남기게 되기도 한다 1) . 이와 같은 영구적인 신체적 화는 자신과 타인의 신체에 대해서 일적인 사람에 비하여 부정적 판단을 하게 되는 인식의 편향을 유한다 2) . 여드름이 환자에게 미치는 정신사회적 부정적 영향은