Physical function and health‐related quality of life of Spanish patients with ankylosing spondylitis

Which clinical variables have the most significant correlation with quality of life evaluated by SF-36 survey in Croatian cohort of patient with ankylosing spondylitis and psoriatic arthritis?

“…It had the strongest impact on physical functioning concept of SF-36 in both diseases in our study. Our results confirmed previously observed association between spinal mobility measurements in AS and SF-36 concepts concerning physical health [5,10,11,27,28]. As we stressed before, most of our PsA patients had spinal affection, which explains the results similar to AS.…”

“…Moreover, psoriatic skin manifestations in PsA have the impact on emotional and social functioning [7,8]. SF-36 survey has been widely used by numerous studies to assess QOL in chronic rheumatic diseases [4,5,8,10,[26][27][28][29][30]. We used Croatian version of SF-36 QOL questionnaire and, even though we had rather limited number of patients within groups, obtained strong correlations between different clinical variables and several SF-36 health concepts for those diseases.…”

“…Although chest expansion itself did not correlate with any of the SF-36 concepts, diastasis of rectus abdominis muscles and umbilical extrusion, as indicators of prolonged disease with deteriorating chest expansion [31,32], significantly correlated with physical functioning subscale. Previous studies already showed the relationship between SF-36 concepts and disease activity or functional indices in patients with AS [27,28]. However there are only few studies focused on the relationship between spinal mobility and health-related QOL assessment by SF-36 in AS [5,11,26].…”

Adaptação cultural cruzada e validação da versão do Índice Funcional de Espondilite Anquilosante de Bath (BASFI) para o português do Brasil

“…11,19 The clinical characteristics of our patients and disease severity were similar. Our patients have longer disease than Spanish group (11 ± 7.8) and also the United Kingdom group (9.9 ± 9.8).…”

“…The validity and reliability of the original BASFI English version, as well as other language's versions, has been demonstrated. [11][12][13][14][15] In addition, the BASFI questionnaire has been approved by OMERACT IV fi lter for use as functional index in spondyloarthritis. 16 …”