Background: There is a significant co-morbidity between 
dermatological disorders and psychiatric. It has been 
estimated that in at least one-third of patients with skin 
diseases,
 their
 effective 
management involves 
consideration of associated psychiatric factors.The aim of 
this study was to investigate the prevalence of psychiatric 
diagnosis in vitiligo and chronic urticaria patients.  
Method: The sample was composed of 50 vitiligo and 50 
chronic urticaria patients recruited from dermatology 
outpatient clinics of four major hospitals in Istanbul. We 
applied the sociodemographical data form, The Turkish 
version of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV 
Mental Disorders (SCID-I). SPSS for Windows 10.0 
package programme, Ki-square analysis and Fisher-Exact 
Test were used for statistical analysis  
Results: The mean age of vitiligo group was 
35.82±12.56, chronic urticaria group was 38.66±10.61. 
The rates of dysthymic disorder and generalized anxiety 
disorder were found higher in the chronic urticaria group 
(respectively % 46, % 30) than vitiligo group 
(respectively % 26, % 6) (p<0.05), but the other diagnoses 
in SCID-I were not statistically different between patients 
(p>0.05). But the number of SCID-I diagnoses in vitiligo 
group were higher than chronic urticaria group in spite of 
unsignificant statistical evaluations