Difficulties in performing leisure activities among persons with newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis : a prospective, controlled study

• Published in: Rheumatology (Oxford, England) Vol. 45; no. 9; pp. 1162 - 1166
• Main Authors: WIKSTRÖM, I, BOOK, C, JACOBSSON, L. T. H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 01.09.2006; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Activities of Daily Living; Arthritis, Rheumatoid - physiopathology; Arthritis, Rheumatoid - psychology; Biological and medical sciences; Case-Control Studies; Clinical Medicine; controlled; Cost of Illness; Disability Evaluation; Diseases of the osteoarticular system; educational level; Educational Status; Female; Humans; Inflammatory joint diseases; Klinisk medicin; Leisure Activities; Linear Models; longitudinal; Male; Medical and Health Sciences; Medical sciences; Medicin och hälsovetenskap; Middle Aged; newly diagnosed RA; Personality; Prospective Studies; Reumatologi och inflammation; Rheumatology and Autoimmunity; Immunopathology; Longitudinal; Educational level; Diseases of the osteoarticular system; Rheumatology; Autoimmune disease; Inflammatory joint disease; Chronic; Leisure; Newly diagnosed RA; Rheumatoid arthritis; Controlled; Leisure activities

To compare leisure activities and associated factors in a group with recent onset RA and matched community derived controls, to examine whether leisure activities are altered during the early years of disease and to seek predictors. One hundred and forty-seven consecutive persons with early RA were...