ArticlePakistan journal of medical sciences
Depression in Rheumatoid Arthritis and its relation to disease activity.
Article in Pakistan journal of medical sciences. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
35 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 58 citations in OpenAlex.
- Patient self-reported instruments for assessing symptoms in rheumatoid arthritis.Rheumatology international · 2023Pooled it
- Rheumatoid arthritis and risk of anxiety: a meta-analysis of cohort studies.Clinical rheumatology · 2019Pooled it
- Silymarin Supplementation in Active Rheumatoid Arthritis: Outcomes of a Pilot Randomized Controlled Clinical Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Trial
- Nonlinear Relationship of Leukocyte-to-Albumin Ratio with Disease Activity in Rheumatoid Arthritis.Journal of inflammation research · 2026Article
- Suicidal ideation and interrelated psychiatric disturbances in rheumatoid arthritis: Evidence from a Vietnamese cohort.PloS one · 2026Article
- Polymorphic Analysis of Genes PADI4 (rs2240340, rs1748033) and HLA-DRB1 (rs2395175) in Arthritis Patients in Pakistani Population.Biochemical genetics · 2024Article
- Predictors of methotrexate adherence and patient's awareness of it in rheumatoid arthritis and its effect on quality of life.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2024Article
- Patterns and prevalence of psychiatric morbidity among individuals with rheumatoid arthritis.Reumatologia · 2024Article
- Decreased IL-4 is the risk factor of depression in patients with Takayasu arteritis.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Article
- Association analysis of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-A (VEGF-A) polymorphism in rheumatoid arthritis using computational approaches.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Comparative analysis of multiorgan toxicity induced by long term use of disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs.PloS one · 2023Article
- Depression in Saudi Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.Open access rheumatology : research and reviews · 2023Article
- Neuroimmune Crosstalk in Rheumatoid Arthritis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Depression and food insecurity among patients with rheumatoid arthritis in NHANES.BMC rheumatology · 2022Article
- Prevalence of depressive symptoms in patients with rheumatoid arthritis at a regional hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.The South African journal of psychiatry : SAJP : the journal of the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa · 2022Article
- The association of depression and anxiety with treatment outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis - a pooled analysis of five randomised controlled trials.Therapeutic advances in musculoskeletal disease · 2022Article
- Factors associated with depressive symptoms in Japanese women with rheumatoid arthritis.Rheumatology advances in practice · 2022Article
- Beyond Rheumatoid Arthritis Evaluation: What are We Missing?Open access rheumatology : research and reviews · 2021Review
- Sexual Health and Dysfunction in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Cross-sectional Single-Center Study.Sexual medicine · 2020Article
- Nursing intervention reduces depression for patients with rheumatoid arthritis: A randomized controlled trial protocol.Medicine · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
objectivesTo determine the level of depression in Rheumatoid Arthritis and its relationship with severity of Rheumatoid Arthritis.
methodsThis cross sectional analytical study was conducted from March 2014 to May 2014. Total 102 cases of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) diagnosed as per ACR (American College of Rheumatology) 1987 criteria were enrolled from Rheumatology Department, Fatima Memorial Hospital. Severity of Rheumatoid Arthritis was assessed by Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) and disease activity score (DAS - 28) while severity of depression was measured by Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) scale II questionnaire. The relationship between depression and disease activity (severity) of Rheumatoid Arthritis was assessed by calculating correlation coefficient between depression, disease activity score (DAS 28) of Rheumatoid Arthritis and health assessment questionnaire (HAQ).
resultsOut of 102 patients, 77(75.5%) were females and 25(24.5%) males. The mean age of patients was 43.5± 11.9 years and the mean duration of disease was 7.8 ± 5.5 years.71.5% of Rheumatoid Arthritis patients were found to have some degree of depression and this was directly related to the severity of disease. Moderate and severe depression were present in 23 (22.5%) and 19(18.6%) patients respectively.
conclusionIn this study, almost three-fourths of Rheumatoid Arthritis patients were found to have depression. There was a strong association between Rheumatoid Arthritis disease activity and the level of depression. So it is imperative for clinicians treating Rheumatoid Arthritis patients to screen them for co morbid depression and manage it accordingly.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.