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ArticleClinical rheumatology2016

"You want to get on with the rest of your life": a qualitative study of health-related quality of life in gout.

Priyanka Chandratre, Christian D Mallen, Edward Roddy, Jennifer Liddle, Jane Richardson

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Article in Clinical rheumatology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04587544 (Effect of a Cold Water Immersion), which is not on this map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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32citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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.

NCT04587544 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2019, after this paper: background citation

Effect of a Cold Water Immersion (CWI) on Pain in People With Gouty Arthritis: A Community Based Randomized Controlled Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsorTaipei Medical UniversityRan2019 to 2021Enrolled76ConditionsGout ArthritisArmsCold Water Immersion
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 71 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Quality Care Assessment in Gout.Current rheumatology reports · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Priyanka ChandratreResearch Institute of Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK.
Christian D MallenResearch Institute of Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK.
Edward RoddyResearch Institute of Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK.
Jennifer LiddleResearch Institute of Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK.
Jane RichardsonResearch Institute of Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK. j.c.richardson@keele.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8230-7537
Keele University · GB

Funding

Department of Health RP_2014-04-026Department of Health WMCLAHRC-2014-1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objective of the study is to examine the impact of gout and its treatments on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) using focus group interviews. From the baseline phase of a cohort study of HRQOL in gout, 17 participants (15 males, mean age 71 years) with varying attack frequency and treatment with and without allopurinol participated in one of four focus group interviews. All interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Data was analysed thematically. Physical and psychosocial HRQOL in gout was affected by characteristics of acute gout (particularly the unpredictable nature of attacks, location of joint involved in an attack, pain and modifications in lifestyle), lack of understanding of gout by others (association with unhealthy lifestyle, symptoms ridiculed as non-severe and non-serious) as well as participants (not considered a disease) and the lack of information provided by physicians (about causes and pharmacological as well as non-pharmacological treatments of gout). Participants emphasised the impact of acute attacks of gout and prioritised dietary modifications and treatment of acute attacks over long-term urate-lowering therapy. Characteristics of acute gout, lack of understanding and information about gout and its treatments perpetuate poor HRQOL. HRQOL (maintenance of usual diet and reduced frequency of attacks) was associated with urate-lowering treatment. Better patient, public and practitioner education about gout being a chronic condition associated with co-morbidities and poor HRQOL may improve understanding and long-term treatment of gout.

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Attitude to HealthLife StyleQuality of LifeAgedAged, 80 and overAllopurinolFemaleFocus GroupsGoutHumansMaleMiddle AgedQualitative ResearchSocial StigmaAllopurinolFocus group interviewsGoutHealth-related quality of lifePrimary careQualitative studyThematic analysis

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PMID26245722
PMCPMC4844632
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