Abstracts tagged "rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and spondyloarthitis"

Abstract Number: 442 • 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
Multidimensional Health Assessment Questionnaire (MDHAQ) as an Effective Screening Tool to Identify Concomitant Depression in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis and Spondyloarthritis in Routine Care
Rosa Morlà¹, Mariam Riad ², Virginia Ruiz-Esquide ³, Fernando Espi ⁴, Julio Ramirez ⁵, Nuria Del Castillo ⁶, Jose Gomez-Puerta ⁷, Raimon Sanmarti ⁷, Theodore Pincus ² and Isabel Castrejon ², ¹Rheumatology Unit, Xarxa Sanitaria Santa Tecla, Tarragona. Rheumatology, Fundacio Clinic, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, ²Division of Rheumatology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ³Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, ⁴Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, ⁵Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain, ⁶Xarxa Social i Sanitaria de Santa Tecla, Tarragona, Spain, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Background/Purpose: Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) or spondyloarthritis (SpA) are more likely to report depression than the general population, and depression has been associated with…