Job Adaptation in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 244
- 试验地点
- 2
研究概览
简要总结
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.
详细描述
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Natural History
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •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.
排除标准
- •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.