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Background: Work disability is an important functional outcome measure in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and includes unemployment and loss of work productivity. Objectives: The aim of this study is to investigate the working status and the factors associated with work productivity in patients with PsA. Methods: Patients with PsA according to Classification Criteria for Psoriatic Arthritis (CASPAR) were included in the study consecutively, without sample selection. Data about age, sex, disease duration (month) were noted. Disease activity was assessed with DAPSA (Disease Activity in Psoriatic Arthritis) and BASDAI (Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index). The Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) was used to evaluate physical disability. The Psoriatic Arthritis Quality of Life (PsAQoL) scale was used to assess the quality of life. Fatigue and stiffness were assessed on the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). Anxiety and depression were evaluated with HAD (Hospital Anxiety and Depression) scale. Assessing work disability, we asked some questions to the patients including employment status, and early retirement, changing or reducing work due to PsA. We used WPAI: PsA (Work Productivi

Author

Nuñez, Dalifer Freites; León, Leticia; Font, Judit; García, Alfredo Madrid; Rosales, Zulema; Abasolo, Lydia; Fernandez, Benjamin; Rodriguez, Luis Rodriguez

Publisher

BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and European League Against Rheumatism

Published

2019

Language

EN