Influence of rheumatoid arthritis on work participation in Australia

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 166-173

  Shanahan, E M ^a,b,c   Smith, M ^a,b   Roberts Thomson, L ^b   Esterman, A ^b   Ahern, M ^a,b  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c REPATRIATION GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Employment; Rheumatoid arthritis; Work disability

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; EMPLOYEE; FEMALE; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORNING STIFFNESS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PENSION; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCORING SYSTEM; WORK DISABILITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AUSTRALIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WORK; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION;

EID: 39449112733     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2007.01432.x     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Prevalence of disabilities and associated health conditions among adults - United States, 1999. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2001 50 : 120 25.
2. Woolf A, Akesson K. Understanding the burden of musculoskeletal conditions: the burden is huge and not reflected in national health priorities. BMJ 2001 322 : 1079 80.
3. Murray JL, Lopez AD, eds. The Global Burden of Disease: A Comprehensive Assessment of Mortality and Disability from Diseases, Injuries and Risk Factors in 1990 and Projected to 2020. Cambridge : Harvard University Press 1996.
4. Access Economics. Arthritis the Bottom Line - the Economic Impact of Arthritis in Australia. Arthritis Australia 2005, Jan [cited 2006 Dec 16]. Available from URL: http://www.arthritisaustralia.com.au F, Greller M, Zuckerman JD. The rheumatoid shoulder. Rheum Dis Clin North Am 1998 24 : 67 82.
5. Verstappen SM, Bijlsma JW, Verkleij H, Buskens E, Blaauw AA, ter Borg EJ et al. Overview of work disability in rheumatoid arthritis patients as observed in cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys. Utrecht Rheumatoid Arthritis Cohort Study Group. Arthritis Rheum 2004 51 : 488 97.
6. Holte HH, Tambs K, Bjerkedal T. Becoming a disability pensioner with rheumatoid arthritis in Norway 1971-1990. J Rheumatol 2001 28 : 54 61.
7. Arnett FC, Edworthy SM, Bloch DA, McShane DJ, Fries JF, Cooper NS et al. The American Rheumatism Association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum 1988 31 : 315 24.
8. Burton W, Morrison A, Maclean R, Ruderman E. Systematic review of studies of productivity loss due to rheumatoid arthritis. Occup Med (Lond) 2006 56 : 18 27.
9. Mason JH, Anderson JJ, Meenan RF, Haralson KM, Lewis-Stevens D, Kaine JL. The rapid assessment of disease activity in rheumatology (RADAR) questionnaire. Validity and sensitivity to change of a patient self-report measure of joint count and clinical status. Arthritis Rheum 1992 35 : 156 62.
10. Bellamy N. Musculoskeletal Clinical Metrology. The Netherlands : Kluwer Academic Publishers 1993.
11. Fries JF, Spitz P, Kraines RG, Holman HR. Measurement of patient outcome in arthritis. Arthritis Rheum 1980 23 : 137 45.
12. Piper BF. Piper fatigue scale available for clinical testing. Oncol Nurs Forum 1990 17 : 661 2.
13. Strohschein FJ, Kelly CG, Clarke AG, Westbury CF, Shuaib A, Chan KM. Applicability, validity and reliability of the piper fatigue scale in post-polio patients. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 1992 82 : 122 9.
14. Rhee SH, Petroski GF, Parker JC, Smarr KL, Wright GE, Multon KD et al. A confirmatory factor analysis of the centre for epidemiological studies depression scale in rheumatoid arthritis patients; additional evidence for a four-factor model. Arthritis Care Res 1999 12 : 392 400.
15. Keefe FJ, Salley AN, Lefebvre JC. Coping with pain: conceptual concerns and future directions. Pain 1992 51 : 131 4.
16. Haythornwaite JA, Menefee LA, Heinberg LJ, Clark MR. Pain coping strategies predict perceived control over pain. Pain 1988 77 : 33 9.
17. The Epidata Association 2000-2003. Epidata 3.0. Odense, Denmark [online] 2003 Jun [cited 2004 Jan]. Available from URL : www.epidata.dk
18. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) [computer program]. Version 10.1.3 for Windows 2001. SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL, USA 1989-2000.
19. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Australian Labour Market Statistics. Commonwealth of Australia 2003 Jun [cited 2006 Dec 16]. Catalogue No.: 6105.0.
20. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Australian Standard Classification of Occupations, 1st edn. Canberra : Commonwealth of Australia 1990.
21. Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services. Disability Support Pension Population Characteristics 2.1 Customers by Medical Condition [online] 2003. Available from URL : http://www.facs.gov.au/disability/ood/ dspc2003/section2.htm
22. Shanahan EM, Ahern M, Smith M. Work disability from rheumatoid arthritis. Occ Med 2006 56 : 216 17.
23. Wong JB, Ramey DR, Singh G. Long-term morbidity, mortality and economics of rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum 2001 44 : 2746 9.
24. Young A, Dixey J, Cox N, Davis P, Devlin J, Emery P et al. How does functional disability in early rheumatoid arthritis (RA) affect patients and their lives? Results of 5 years of follow-up in 732 patients from the Early RA study (ERAS). Rheumatology 2000 39 : 603 11.
25. Allaire S, Wolfe F, Niu J, Lavalley M, Michaud K. Work disability and its economic effect on 55-64-year-old adults with rheumatoid arthritis. Arthritis Rheum 2005 53 : 603 8.
26. Lacaille D. Arthritis and employment research: where are we? Where do we need to go? J Rheumatol 2005 32 Suppl. 72 : 42 5.
27. Pincus T, Callahan LF. Formal education as a marker for increased mortality and morbidity in rheumatoid arthritis. J Chronic Dis 1985 38 : 973 84.
28. Yelin E, Meenan R, Nevitt M, Epstein W. Work disability in rheumatoid arthritis: effects of disease, social and work factors. Ann Intern Med 1980 93 : 551 6.
29. Kaarela K, Lehtinen K, Luukkainen R. Work capacity of patients with inflammatory joint diseases. An eight year follow-up study. Scand J Rheum 1987 16 : 403 6.
30. Callahan LF, Bloch DA, Pincus T. Identification of work disability in rheumatoid arthritis: physical, radiographic and laboratory variables do not add explanatory power to demographic and functional variables. J Clin Epidemiol 1992 45 : 127 38.
31. Reisine S, McQuillian J, Fiefield J. Predictors of work disability in rheumatoid arthritis patients. Arthritis Rheum 1995 38 : 1630 37.
32. Fex V, Larsson B, Nived K, Eberhardt K. Effect of rheumatoid arthritis on work status and social and leisure time activities in patients followed 8 years from onset. J Rheumatol 1988 25 : 44 50.
33. Sokka T, Kautiainen H, Mttonen T, Hannonen P. Work disability in rheumatoid arthritis 10 years after diagnosis. J Rheumatol 1999 26 : 1681 5.
34. Wolfe F, Hawley DJ. The long term outcomes of rheumatoid arthritis: work disability: a prospective 18 year study of 823 patients. J Rheumatol 1998 25 : 2108 17.
35. McFarlane AC, Brooks PM. Determinants of disability in rheumatoid arthritis. Br J Rheum 1988 27 : 7 14.
36. Sokka T, Pincus T. Markers for work disability in rheumatoid arthritis. J Rheumatol 2001 28 : 1718 22.
37. Backman CL, Kennedy SM, Chalmers A, Singer J. Participation in paid and unpaid work by adults with rheumatoid arthritis. J Rheumatol 2004 31 : 47 57.