Marital Satisfaction in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.Comparative Study with Other Chronic Diseases and with Healthy Controls

Leonor A. Barile Fabris; Moisés Casarrubias Ramírez; Carlos Gutiérrez; Raúl Ariza Andraca; Carmen Martínez; Patricia Clark Peralta

2004, Number 2

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Rev Med Inst Mex Seguro Soc 2004; 42 (2)

Marital Satisfaction in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.Comparative Study with Other Chronic Diseases and with Healthy Controls

Barile FLA, Casarrubias RM, Gutiérrez C, Ariza AR, Martínez C, Clark PP

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Objective: to assess marital satisfaction (MS) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and compare it with other chronic diseases and normal controls. Material and methods: we studied 50 patients with RA and compared them with 50 patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), 50 patients with diabetes mellitus (type 2), and 50 normal controls. We applied a marital satisfaction questionnaire (MSQ) and correlated it with disease severity indexes. Results: median score for MSQ was worst in women with RA as compared with all other groups (p = 0.028, Kruskal-Wallis). There was no relation with functional indexes except for AIMS (Arthritis Impact Measurement Scale) (p = 0.0079). Conclusions: patients with RA have worse MS than patients with other chronic diseases and normal controls.

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