Assessment of loneliness in patients with inflammatory arthritis.
Hakan EmmüngilUfuk İlgenSezin TuranÖzge KılıçPublished in: International journal of rheumatic diseases (2020)
Loneliness is associated with depression, anxiety, lack of social support, disability, higher number of drugs used, and lower education but not with disease activity in Turkish patients with RA, AS, and PsA. Perception and expression of loneliness vary according to the cultural background. Single-item scales for loneliness may lack reliability compared to the more comprehensive ULS-8.
Keyphrases
- social support
- disease activity
- depressive symptoms
- rheumatoid arthritis
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- rheumatoid arthritis patients
- ankylosing spondylitis
- sleep quality
- poor prognosis
- healthcare
- prostate cancer
- juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- multiple sclerosis
- oxidative stress
- long non coding rna
- interstitial lung disease
- radical prostatectomy
- physical activity
- drug induced
- systemic sclerosis