… For patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), being in paid work is very important, and it increases
self-esteem and financial independence. Although the management of RA has changed …

… , paid work refers to all forms of employment, and unpaid work refers to household work, …
People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) experience rates of work disability in the neighborhood of …

… of paid work, with no independent effect for sex. Distress increased with decreasing
functional ability, increasing pain, and exposure to such work … for disease and work variables. …

… with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) end their working career due to … to investigate the association
of paid work and HRQOL in … working full- or part-time and 187 patients not working due to …

… arthritis, prompt a rethinking of future studies of work disability in RA. Loss of the ability to
work in the paid … financial rewards associated with paid work. Furthermore, people who leave …

… work history of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) from the year of diagnosis to 1985. The
paper also describes the risk factors for work … who had ever worked for pay. The number of …

… ) worked on average 21 ha week less not have a paying job compared to 38% of the Dutch
… of seven working hours a week females and the elderly are less likely to have paid work [14]. …

… Only studies of patients with rheumatoid arthritis who had a paid job before disease onset
… Prognosis of functional capacity and work capacity in rheumatoid arthritis. Clin Rheumatol …

… The participants for our study had been selected based on the criterion that they had retired
early from paid work due to their disease. Therefore, our finding that returning to paid work …

… degree household work disability exists in women with rheumatoid arthritis (… work disability.
In addition, the participation of other family members and paid employees in household work …