Health-Related Quality of Life and Disease-Related Costs: Comparison Between Ankylosing Spondylitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Taiwan
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00747578 |
Recruitment Status : Unknown
Verified September 2008 by Taichung Veterans General Hospital.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted : September 5, 2008
Last Update Posted : September 8, 2008
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Ankylosing spondylitis (AS), rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are the most common rheumatic diseases dealt with rheumatologists in Taiwan. In previous studies, the 3 diseases all have broad impacts on health-related quality of life of patients and drive enormous economic burden on patients and society. The objective of this study is to compare health-related quality of life and disease-related costs between patients with the 3 different diseases.
We will invite at least 100 patients with AS, RA or SLE respectively who are regularly followed in the outpatient clinic of the Division of Rheumatology at Taichung Veterans General Hospital (VGHTC) to participate in the study. Patients who have cognitive impairment, who are older than 65 years old or younger than 18 years old, who have overlapping syndrome of any 2 of the 3 rheumatic diseases (eg. RA overlapping with SLE) or who have visited rheumatologists in the outpatient clinics at VGHTC for less than 4 times in 2008 will be excluded. Patients who agree to take part will attend a comprehensive clinical examination in the outpatient department. Patients will complete a questionaire including demographic and disease characteristics, and health-related quality of life at the time of survey. The questionaires about disease-related costs will be completed once per quarter throughout 2009. The four questionaires about costs will be given at the time of initial survey and will be returned by returned by mail or in the following outpatient clinics visits every 3 months in 2009.
The result of this study will help patients to realize their own health-related quality of life and disease-related costs and help government in Taiwan to realize the socioeconomic burden of the 3 common rheumatic diseases and to allocate health care resources more properly in the future.
Condition or disease |
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Ankylosing Spondylitis |
Study Type : | Observational |
Estimated Enrollment : | 300 participants |
Observational Model: | Cohort |
Time Perspective: | Prospective |
Official Title: | Health-Related Quality of Life and Disease-Related Costs: Comparison Between Ankylosing Spondylitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Taiwan |
Study Start Date : | September 2008 |

Group/Cohort |
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AS patients who fit the modified New York criteria (1984) Exclusion criteria :
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RA patients who fit the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria (1987) Exclusion criteria :
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SLE patients who fit the ACR revised criteria for the classification of SLE (1997) Exclusion criteria :
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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years to 65 Years (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Sampling Method: | Non-Probability Sample |
Inclusion Criteria:
- AS patients who fit the modified New York criteria (1984)
- RA patients who fit the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria (1987)
- SLE patients who fit the ACR revised criteria for the classification of SLE (1997)
Exclusion Criteria:
- 1. Patients who have cognitive impairment.
- 2. Patients who have overlapping syndrome of any 2 of the 3 rheumatic disease (eg. RA overlapping with SLE).
- 3. Patients who are less than 18 years old or older than 65 years old.
- 4. Patients who visited rheumatologists in the outpatient clinics of the Division of Rheumatology at Taichung Veterans General Hospital for less than 4 times in 2008.

To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00747578
Contact: Hsin-Hua Chen, M.D. | 886-4-23592525 ext 3336 | shc5555@hotmail.com |
Taiwan | |
Taichung Veterans General Hospital | Recruiting |
Taichung, Taiwan, 40705 | |
Contact: Hsin-Hua Chen, M.D. 886-4-23592525 ext 3336 shc5555@hotmail.com |
Responsible Party: | The Institutional Review Board of Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung Veterans General Hospital |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00747578 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
C08129 |
First Posted: | September 5, 2008 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | September 8, 2008 |
Last Verified: | September 2008 |
ankylosing spondylitis (AS), costs, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), health-related |
quality of life (HRQOL) compare utility patients |
Spondylitis Arthritis Arthritis, Rheumatoid Spondylitis, Ankylosing Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic Joint Diseases Musculoskeletal Diseases Rheumatic Diseases Connective Tissue Diseases |
Autoimmune Diseases Immune System Diseases Bone Diseases, Infectious Infection Bone Diseases Spinal Diseases Spondylarthropathies Spondylarthritis Ankylosis |