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Productivity at work and quality of life in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, May 2015
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Title
Productivity at work and quality of life in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
Published in
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, May 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12891-015-0562-x
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Myrthe van Vilsteren, Cecile RL Boot, Dirk L Knol, Dirkjan van Schaardenburg, Alexandre E Voskuyl, Romy Steenbeek, Johannes R Anema

Abstract

The aim of this study was to determine which combination of personal, disease-related and environmental factors is best associated with at-work productivity loss in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and to determine whether at-work productivity loss is associated with the quality of life for these patients. This study is based on cross-sectional data. Patients completed a questionnaire with personal, disease-related and environmental factors (related to the work environment), and clinical characteristics were obtained from patient medical records. At-work productivity loss was measured with the Work Limitations Questionnaire, and quality of life with the RAND 36. Using linear regression analyses, a multivariate model was built containing the combination of factors best associated with at-work productivity loss. This model was cross-validated internally. We furthermore determined whether at-work productivity loss was associated with quality of life using linear regression analyses. We found that at-work productivity loss was associated with workers who had poorer mental health, more physical role limitations, were ever treated with a biological therapeutic medication, were not satisfied with their work, and had more work instability (R(2) = 0.50 and R(2) following cross-validation was 0.32). We found that at-work productivity loss was negatively associated with health-related quality of life, especially with dimensions of mental health, physical role limitations, and pain. We found that at-work productivity loss was associated with personal, work-related, and clinical factors. Although our study results should be interpreted with caution, they provide insight into patients with RA who are at risk for at-work productivity loss.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 127 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 21 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 11%
Student > Master 13 10%
Researcher 11 9%
Student > Postgraduate 9 7%
Other 26 20%
Unknown 34 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 33 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 11%
Business, Management and Accounting 7 5%
Psychology 7 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 6 5%
Other 26 20%
Unknown 35 27%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 July 2018.
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#4,352,358
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Outputs from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#848
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#53,132
of 266,668 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#15
of 67 outputs
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