Patient education, disease activity and physical function: can we be more targeted? A cross sectional study among people with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and hand osteoarthritis

Table 4 Correlations between educational needs, disease activity and function for RA and PsA cohorts

Cohort		DAS28		HAQ		CDAI		SDAI
		r _p	P-value	r _p	P-value	r_p	P-value	r _p	P-value
RA (n = 130)	Pain	0.044	0.662	-0.039	0.689	0.030	0.689	-0.083	0.403
	Movement	0.235*	0.013*	0.175	0.056	0.139*	0.130	-0.086	0.368
	Feelings	0.216*	0.023*	0.109*	0.235	0.054	0.557	-0.005	0.954
	Arthritis	0.086	0.375	-0.044	0.635	-0.025	0.786	-0.218*	0.023*
	Treatments	0.224*	0.028*	0.014	0.891	0.082	0.409	-0.168*	0.099
	Self help	0.169*	0.087	-0.083	0.380	0.011	0.91	-0.024	0.808
	Support	0.106*	0.285	0.089	0.342	-0.037	0.697	-0.079	0.418
	Total ENAT score	0.174*	0.115	0.019	0.860	0.030	0.777	-0.130*	0.236
		DAPSA		HAQ		CDAI
PsA (n = 125)	Pain	0.255*	0.058*	0.113*	0.391	0.260*	0.044*
	Movement	0.470*	0.000*	0.384*	0.002*	0.509*	0.000*
	Feelings	0.317*	0.013*	0.325*	0.009*	0.303*	0.015*
	Arthritis	0.406*	0.002*	0.319*	0.011*	0.422*	0.001*
	Treatments	0.330*	0.013*	0.148*	0.259	0.358*	0.005*
	Self help	0.361*	0.004*	0.137*	0.276	0.319*	0.010*
	Support	0.377*	0.004*	0.283*	0.026*	0.376*	0.003*
	Total ENAT score	0.438*	0.002*	0.282*	0.043*	0.455*	0.001*

r_p = Pearson correlation, where r = 0.1, 0.3 and 0.5 represent small, moderate and large effects. P-value ≤0.05 represents significance effects against the null hypothesis on 'no correlation’; *significant results. RA, rheumatoid arthritis; PsA, psoriatic arthritis; ENAT, Educational Needs Assessment Tool; DAS28; Disease Activity Score 28; HAQ; Health Assessment Questionnaire; CDAI; Clinical Disease Activity Index; SDAI: Simple Disease Activity Index; DAPSA, Disease Activity Index for Psoriatic Arthritis.

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