ReviewRheumatology (Oxford, England)2019
The impact of fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis and the challenges of its assessment.
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32 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Instruments for measuring fatigue in people with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases: a systematic review of measurement properties.RMD open · 2025Pooled it
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- Fatigue in Persons With Heart Failure: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Synthesis Using the Biopsychosocial Model of Health.Journal of cardiac failure · 2022Pooled it
- A multidisciplinary lifestyle program for rheumatoid arthritis: the 'Plants for Joints' randomized controlled trial.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2023Trial
- Short-Interval Discordance Between Fatigue and Joint Counts in Rheumatoid Arthritis.International journal of rheumatic diseases · 2026Article
- Longitudinal fatigue outcomes and prediction in inflammatory arthritis: a real-world digital cohort study.Rheumatology international · 2026Article
- Understanding Health-related quality of life in rheumatologic diseases: insights from PROMISJournal of patient-reported outcomes · 2026Article
- Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy in the Association Between Fatigue and Depressive Symptoms in Females with Rheumatoid Arthritis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Fatigue patterns surrounding biologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug injection in patients with an inflammatory rheumatic disease: an ecological momentary assessment study.Rheumatology international · 2025Article
- Validation, Reliability, and Clinical Significance of the Arabic Version of Bristol Rheumatoid Arthritis Fatigue Multi-Dimensional Questionnaire.Current rheumatology reviews · 2025Article
- Urgent surgical patient classification: Development and validation of a novel instrument using the Delphi approach.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025Article
- Evaluating Meaningful Changes in Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System-Fatigue Scores from Three Phase 3 Clinical Trials of Sarilumab for Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis.ACR open rheumatology · 2025Article
- Utilising Hyperspectral Autofluorescence Imaging in the Objective Assessment of Disease State and Pain in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- The potential role of fatigue in difficult-to-treat rheumatoid arthritis.BMC rheumatology · 2024Article
- Effect of fatigue on quality of life in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: the chain mediating role of resilience and self-efficacy.Advances in rheumatology (London, England) · 2024Article
- Targeting Therapeutic Windows for Rheumatoid Arthritis Prevention.Chinese journal of integrative medicine · 2024Review
- Latent class analysis of psychological resilience and influencing factors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional survey.Clinical rheumatology · 2024Article
- Fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis patients: The status, independent risk factors, and consistency of multiple scales.Immunity, inflammation and disease · 2024Article
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Abstract
Fatigue is one of the most important symptoms for patients with RA, and imposes a great burden on patients' lives, being associated with significantly reduced health-related quality of life. Although being recognized by the rheumatology community as a major gap in the current management of the disease, fatigue has not been easy to measure and conceptualize. Part of the problem seems to reside in the multidimensional causality of this phenomenon, which may warrant dedicated measures and interventions. Although there are several instruments available to measure it, no consensus has yet been reached to recommend a 'gold-standard'. This review aims at synthesizing the role of fatigue in the global impact of RA; describing validated instruments and their psychometric properties as measures of fatigue among patients with RA; and finally proposing a clinically meaningful, valid and feasible process to measure fatigue in clinical practice.
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