Education, Self‐Management, and Upper Extremity Exercise Training in People With Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Randomized Controlled Trial

The impact of upper limb exercise on function, daily activities and quality of life in systemic lupus erythematosus: a pilot randomised controlled trial

“…These findings were in accordance with the results of Lamb et al for RA patients 6. Another important finding was that the exercise group presented a significant decrease of pain in all time points compared with control group, in accordance with the results of other studies in SLE patients26 or RA patients 27–29. However, some studies failed to present post-exercise decrease in pain in SLE patients30 and RA patients,31 32 likely due to different types of the exercise programme.…”

Job retention vocational rehabilitation for employed people with inflammatory arthritis (WORK-IA): a feasibility randomized controlled trial

“…Whilst an 80% retention rate is suggested as near the limit of validity for RCTs [ 50 ], our 20% attrition was similar to other job retention VR trials [ 10 , 51 ] and other RA rehabilitation trials e.g. [ 52 , 53 ]. This retention rate may reflect the more adherent, motivated group of people choosing to participate and willing to commit the time, which arguably reflects the situation in every trial.…”

Exploring self-management of chronic low back pain in Saudi Arabia

“…A self-management programme has significant long-term improvement in selfefficacy among MSK patients Manning et al 2014;. Moreover, a similar finding was reported in studies for the medium period (< 3 months) Gronning et al 2012).…”