Abstracts tagged "educational research and rheumatoid arthritis (RA)"

Abstract Number: 114 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Surfing the Net: Patient Empowerment or Patient Deceit? Fifteen-Year Trends on the World Wide Web Information for Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Jose de Jesus Valdivia-Nuno¹, Victor Brambila-Barba¹, Luis Hernandez-Sanchez¹, Jose Juan Castaneda-Sanchez¹, Carlos Gallegos-Rios¹, Gabriel Flores-Hernandez¹, Angel Suarez-Rico¹, Zalathiel Barajas-Ochoa¹, Heber Garagarza-Mariscal¹, Andrea Ramirez-Gomez², Jose Dionisio Castillo-Ortiz² and Cesar Ramos-Remus², ¹Servicio Social, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico, ²Unidad de Investigacion en Enfermedades Cronico-Degenerativas, Guadalajara, Mexico
Background/Purpose: Considering rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic disease that lasts for decades, patient education is of upmost importance. RA patients seeking information on the…
Abstract Number: 2315 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Six-Month Effects of a Multimedia Patient Education Tool in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis. a Randomized Controlled Trial
Maria A. Lopez-Olivo¹, Andrea Barbo², Tara Rizvi³, Robert Volk⁴, Heather Lin⁵ and Maria E. Suarez-Almazor⁶, ¹Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, ²Department of Biostatistics, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, ³Rheumatology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, ⁴Health Services Research, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, ⁵Biostatistics, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, ⁶General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Background/Purpose: We conducted a multi-centered, open-label, parallel, randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of a multimedia-patient education tool (MM-PtET) for patients with rheumatoid arthritis…