Abstract

YEGROS, María Isabel Bordon. Depression in Patients With Crronic Arthritis Rheumatoidea. Eureka [online]. 2012, vol.9, n.1, pp. 78-87. ISSN 2220-9026.

In the Rheumatoid Arthritis the constant presence of pain, with other factors may carry to Depression, many times not really with an adequate diagnosis. In order to determinate Prevalence of Depression in chronic patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis an observational study is done, transversal in time, carried on 59 patients with more than 15 years, with an average age of 50+14 years, with 9,87+9,15 years of evolution time of the disease, and 4,5+5,59 years of treatment for their arthritis. All of them have at least four ACR diagnosis criteria for AR. Depression was diagnosed using de CET-DE (Alonso- Rodriguez 2006). A Depression prevalence of 42% (25) was found and it was related with the functional ability of patients: more Depression in those with more funtional impairment (31,5% in FH I-II; 56,3% in FH III and 80% in FH IV-V). This difference was not significative. Another important factor was the treatment: there was less depression in patients on treatment (38,5%) than in those not yet treated (71%).

Keywords : Rheumatoid Arthritis; Depression; Functional impairment; Chronic pain.

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