Job Adaptation in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis

Completed

• Conditions: Rheumatoid Arthritis

• Registration Number: NCT00412399
• Lead Sponsor: Hospital for Special Surgery, New York

Brief Summary

The specific aim of this study is to compare the rate of negative work role events in individuals with rheumatoid arthritis compared to healthy controls.

Detailed Description

Rheumatoid arthritis can cause multiple socio-medical disabilities, with work disability among the most marked. While a major focus has been documenting the rates of job loss and returning patients to the workforce, there is little information about how to foster job retention in those still employed. The goals of this study are to document negative workplace events over 1 year in 122 employed patients with rheumatoid arthritis, and to compare these to 122 healthy controls, who are included to account for the effects of socioeconomic status on employment. Events will be recorded with the work domain of the Psychiatric Epidemiology Research Life Events Scale. Additional goals are to compared fatigue, physical activity, functional status and sleep disturbances as covariates.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 1999-06
• Study Completion: 2001-10
• Status Verified: 2006-12
• Study First Submitted: 2006-12-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2006-12-15
• Last Update Submitted: 2006-12-15
• Study First Posted: 2006-12-18
• Last Update Posted: 2006-12-18

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 244

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients are eligible if they are:

  • over age 18;
  • meet American Rheumatism Association criteria for rheumatoid arthritis; and
  • are employed for salary or monetary reimbursement.

• Controls are eligible if they are:

  • over age 18;
  • have no major comorbidity; and
  • are employed for salary or monetary reimbursement.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients and controls are excluded if they:

  • have cognitive deficits and cannot provide informed consent;
  • do not speak English or Spanish; or
  • their physicians do not grant permission to enroll them.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Cornell Internal Medicine Associates; 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States

Hospital for Special Surgery; 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States