The stability of health status in rheumatoid arthritis: a five-year study of patients with established disease.

Meenan, Robert F.; Kazis, Lewis E.; Anderson, Jennifer J.

doi:10.2105/ajph.78.11.1484

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“…The mean scores for affective distress are relatively low (at or below 3.5) at the three time points. These mean scores are similar to those found with other samples of RA patients RA illness representations 603 using the AIMS (Meenan, Kazis & Anderson, 1988;Potts & Brandt, 1987). Physician ratings of the number of patients in an active stage of disease at each assessment point; Time 1, 45%, Time 2, 42%, Time 3, 37%, show that the majority at each time period was in an inactive phase.…”

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The impact of illness representations and disease activity on adjustment in women with rheumatoid arthritis: A longitudinal study

Groarke

Curtis

Coughlan

et al. 2005

Psychology & Health

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Section: Descriptive Statisticssupporting

confidence: 83%

The impact of illness representations and disease activity on adjustment in women with rheumatoid arthritis: A longitudinal study

Groarke

Curtis

Coughlan

et al. 2005

Psychology & Health

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“…This can be explained by systematic specialist outpatient care, regular treatment, and patient education. On the other hand, it was reported that an improvement in the area of emotional well-being in patients with RA can be related to age [27]. Increase in values of scale describing mental health also observed in this prospective 2-year follow-up study.…”

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confidence: 62%

Preliminary report on a study of health-related quality of life in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

et al. 2012

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There are studies about health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but few studies prospectively assessed HRQoL. The main purpose of this study was to analyze HRQoL in patients hospitalized due to RA exacerbation and observed over a planned 2-year follow-up in an outpatient setting. The study involved 42 women and 9 men, at mean age of 62.5 years (SD ± 12.6). The mean duration of the study was 22–23 months. The HRQoL analysis was performed using the SF-36 survey. At the beginning of the study, basic data on age, sex, selected biochemical (ESR, CRP, GFR, hemoglobin, plasma albumin, plasma protein), and clinical parameters (the duration of RA, VAS, DAS28, BMI, the presence of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, osteoporotic fractures, osteoarthritis, neoplasm) were collected. Questionnaires were completed at the beginning and end of the study. Statistically significant reductions in HRQoL scores were observed in social functioning (SF; 0.42 vs 0.32, P < 0.05), whereas role-emotional health (RE; 0.48 vs 0.59, P < 0.05) and mental health (MH; 0.47 vs 0.54, P < 0.05) scores were increased. A decrease in the SF was positively correlated with the lack of osteoporosis at baseline (r = 0.35, P > 0.02). An increase in the MH was inversely correlated with BMI (r = −0.31, P < 0.05), and the level of hemoglobin (r = −0.32, P < 0.028) and positively correlated with the presence of osteoarthritis at baseline (r = 0.29, P < 0.05). In RA patients, dimensions of HRQoL as SF, RE, and MH could change within 2 years and these changes could be related to comorbidities. Although preliminary findings are promising, further studies are needed.

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“…In general, none of the results was statistically significant, all but one of the 95% confidence intervals including unity. [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] (0 42 to 9 89) (0-08 to 8-63) (0-53 to 4 …”

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Sociodemographic factors and the outcome of rheumatoid arthritis in young women.

Vlieland

Buitenhuis

Zeben

et al. 1994

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

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The stability of health status in rheumatoid arthritis: a five-year study of patients with established disease.

Cited by 43 publications

References 8 publications

The impact of illness representations and disease activity on adjustment in women with rheumatoid arthritis: A longitudinal study

The impact of illness representations and disease activity on adjustment in women with rheumatoid arthritis: A longitudinal study

Preliminary report on a study of health-related quality of life in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Sociodemographic factors and the outcome of rheumatoid arthritis in young women.

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