Participation Restrictions in Rheumatoid Arthritis

Federal University of Minas Gerais

Status: Completed

Conditions: Rheumatoid Arthritis

Treatments: Other: observational study

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02863653

ETIC 024/09

Details and patient eligibility

About

Objective: To evaluate what factors contribute to social participation restrictions in subjects with Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), considering the model International Classification of Functioning (ICF).

Methods: Cross-sectional study with 81 individuals with Rheumatoid Arthritis, using instruments to measure two constructs of component social participation.

Full description

In this study the definition of social participation considered several areas, such as marriage and family, work, leisure, religion, economy, and politics which are based in the social scales of the questionnaires SF-36 and AIMS2.

Enrollment: 81 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age greater than 18 years of age
• Mental capacity as assessed by the Brazilian version of Mini Mental State Examination
• Diagnosis of RA according to the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 1987 criteria established by attending service rheumatologist.

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals who had undergone surgery of the upper limbs, were unable to comply with the protocol for data collection, or with non-corrected visual deficits that could interfere with their functionality were excluded