title: [Functional outcome in rheumatoid arthritis patients].
abstract: The Stanford Health Assessment (HAQ) was implemented to Croatian population in order to assess disability in the patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). 101 patients with RA were in the study (9 males, 92 females). The mean age was 52 years and mean disease duration was 9 years. 51 patients completed HAQ with no prior instructions and were then interviewed by a rheumatologist. 50 patients completed HAQ in inverse manner. Ten patients were tested by a physiotherapist in order to confirm the facts given from the interview. Our patients showed a mean score of 1.89 on the scale of 0 to 3 which is statistically significant lower than those given by the rheumatologist--1.99. Also we recorded higher score related to age and disease duration. All 101 patients were able to complete HAQ with or without some terminology difficulties. We consider HAQ is easy to use, simple to scoring and no time consumption questionnaire. It can be used in our RA population with small terminology modifications for better understanding of some questions. We registered some difficulties in discrimination between score 1 and 2, so we added a new formulation to score 1--still satisfied to improve that part of the questionnaire.
authors.affiliation: Klinika za reumatske bolesti i rehabilitaciju, KBC Rebro, Zagreb, Kispatićeva 12.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Perić
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Curković
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Babić-Naglić
mesh_terms: D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires