Impact of educational level on rheumatoidarthritis: A systematic review / Impacto del nivel educativo en artritis reumatoide: una revisión sistemática
Rev. colomb. reumatol
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21(4): 201-212, dic. 2014. tab
Article
in Spanish
| LILACS
| ID: lil-740778
ABSTRACT
Objectives:
To assess the impact of educational level on rheumatoid arthritis through a systematicreview of the literature and assessing the age at onset, the educational level as riskfactor, and to identify outcomes related to educational level and rheumatoid arthritis.Methods:
A systematic review was performed using PubMed, SciELO and LILACS as databases in order to identify original articles written in English, Portuguese or Spanish thatused accepted classification criteria for rheumatoid arthritis and a comparison was madebetween educational level and outcomes of rheumatoid arthritis. Final articles were identifiedby two independent reviewers and three blinded reviewers created a new list andextracted data from selected studies. Each record was classified based on the quality scoreof the studies.Results:
Through the systematic review of the literature, the factors and outcomes relatedto educational level and rheumatoid arthritis identified were the risk of developing the disease,radiographic progression, depression and anxiety, work disability, functional disability,quality of life, and mortality.Conclusion:
The information available in the literature about the impact of the educationallevel in several outcomes related to rheumatoid arthritisis variable. Only work disability isan outcome related to a low education level in all the articles reviewed...
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LILACS (Americas)
Main subject:
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
Type of study:
Prognostic study
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Risk factors
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Systematic reviews
Limits:
Humans
Language:
Spanish
Journal:
Rev. colomb. reumatol
Journal subject:
Rheumatology
Year:
2014
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Colombia
Institution/Affiliation country:
Clínica Universidad de la Sabana/CO
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Universidad del Rosario/CO
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