ACR Meeting Abstracts
Abstract Number: 44 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Faith Matcham1, Nicola J. Gullick2, Matthew Hotopf3, Sam Norton4, Sophia Steer5 and James Galloway6, 1Psychological Medicine Clinical Academic Group, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, 2Rheumatology, Department of Rheumatology, King`s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom, 3Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, 4Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, United Kingdom, 5Rheumatology Dept, Kings College Hospital, London, United Kingdom, 6Academic Department of Rheumatology, King´s College London, London, United Kingdom
Background/Purpose: Depression and anxiety have detrimental effects on quality-of-life, treatment response and disease outcomes. Whilst psychological morbidity has been described in individual rheumatic diseases, less…