An assessment for measuring loneliness, anxiety, and depression in male patients with androgenetic alopecia undergoing hair transplantation surgery: A before-after study.

[BACKGROUND] Androgenetic alopecia has a significant influence on the patients' loneliness, anxiety, and depression, although there are numerous strategies to improve the patients' loneliness, anxiety, and depression.

[AIMS] Determine whether hair transplant operation improves loneliness, anxiety, and depression in patients.

[PATIENTS/METHODS] There were 35 patients recruited from the clinic. Using questionnaires (UCLA and HADS), the subjects were evaluated for their levels of loneliness, anxiety, and depression before and after hair transplant. To compare the means of quantitative outcomes, a paired t-test was administered. The Chi-square test was employed to compare qualitatively the preoperative and postoperative measures. An analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to assess the impact of marital status and educational level on outcome variables. If p < 0.05, differences were deemed significant.

[RESULTS] Our findings demonstrated a statistically significant difference (p < 0.001) between pre- and post-operative hair transplantation for HADS-anxiety and depression, with the mean anxiety and depression score improving to 3.32. In terms of the UCLA, there was a statistically significant change between the two groups (p < 0.001), and the average loneliness score improved to 4.48. There was also a statistically significant relationship between marital status and loneliness (p < 0.001), educational level and loneliness (p < 0.001), anxiety and depression (p < 0.001).

[CONCLUSION] This research found that hair transplantation surgery improves psychosocial outcomes, with affected patients experiencing less loneliness, anxiety, and sadness after surgery than before.