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JOURNAL OF RHEUMATOLOGY
Volume 41, Issue 11, Pages 2260-2269Publisher
J RHEUMATOL PUBL CO
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.131536
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JUVENILE IDIOPATHIC ARTHRITIS; PAIN; PHYSICIAN GLOBAL ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT; PARENT GLOBAL ASSESSMENT; CHILD HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE
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- Canadian Rheumatology Association under the Canadian Initiative for Outcomes in Rheumatology Care/Initiative Canadienne pour des resultats en soins rhumatologiques (CIORA/ICORA) program
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Objective. To assess which clinical features are most important for patients, parents, and clinicians in the course of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Methods. Forty-nine people participated in 6 audience-specific focus group discussions and 112 reciprocal interviews in 3 Canadian cities. Participants included youth with JIA, experienced English-and French-speaking parents, novice parents (<6 mos since diagnosis), pediatric rheumatologists, and allied health professionals. Participants discussed the importance of 34 JIA clinical features extracted from medical literature. Transcripts and interview reports underwent qualitative analysis to establish relative priorities for each group. Results. Most study participants considered medication requirements, medication side effects, pain, participant-defined quality of life, and active joints as high priority clinical features of JIA. Active joint count was the only American College of Rheumatology core variable accorded high or medium priority by all groups. Rheumatologists and allied health professionals considered physician global assessment as high priority, but it had very low priority for patients and parents. The parent global assessment was considered high priority by clinicians, medium to high by parents, and low by patients. Child Health Assessment Questionnaire scores were considered low priority by patients and parents, and moderate or high by clinicians. The number of joints with limited motion was given low to very low priority by all groups. Parents gave high priority to arthritis flares. Conclusion. If our findings are confirmed, medication requirements, medication side effects, pain, participant-defined quality of life, and active joint counts should figure prominently in describing the course of JIA.
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