Title
Educational website incorporating rheumatoid arthritis patient needs for Latin American and Caribbean countries
Date Issued
01 December 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Massone F.
Martínez M.E.
Pascual-Ramos V.
Quintana R.
Stange L.
Caballero-Uribe C.V.
Ferreyra-Garrot L.
Kourilovitch M.
Duarte M.
Baumert C.
Vergara C.
Gareca N.
Rodríguez C.
Khoury V.
Cardiel M.H.
Massardo L.
Publisher(s)
Springer London
Abstract
Health education is fundamental in the management of RA patients. This study explored patient needs for educational material appropriate for RA patients in our region through a website. This study includes seven focus groups and semi-structured interviews across 4 countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico) with 71 RA patients. Transcripts were analyzed by anthropologists using qualitative analysis (QA), resulting in themes and subthemes to be developed. Five themes and over 50 subthemes of interest were identified by patients. Grouped into categories as follows: (1) knowing the disease, (2) living with arthritis, (3) treatment and therapies for RA, (4) psychosocial support, and (5) information for families. A response was written by the team in plain Spanish on patient subthemes of interest including additional areas that the team considered relevant. Three videos for YouTube were produced: on patient-doctor relationships, patients at work, and home and at the clinic. Illustrations in a comic book format on RA diagnosis were created. The educational site on RA of PANLAR can be found at htpp://artritisreumatoide.cl. This project accomplished a comprehensive list of RA patient interests, revealing the complex relationship between the information on the disease, the experience of a chronic disease, and the way in which patients approach, conceive, and manage their disease. We expect to gather information on how the website will be used in the future for patients and their families and maintain and improve the website as well as adapt its content to different socioeconomic realities.
Start page
2789
End page
2797
Volume
36
Issue
12
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Políticas de salud, Servicios de salud Farmacología, Farmacia Reumatología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85032968996
PubMed ID
Source
Clinical Rheumatology
ISSN of the container
07703198
Sponsor(s)
Acknowledgements We would like to thank all the patients and collaborators (Appendix C) who helped to develop this website, the International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR) for the grant to the project Web-based educational program for patients with rheumatoid arthritis in Latin America and the Caribbean countries, to Liga Panamericana de Asociaciones de Reumatología (PANLAR), and to Ms. Teresa Cole for the English version of this manuscript. With support from CONICYT grant PFB12/2007 awarded to Center for Aging and Regeneration (CARE), Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
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