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Pugliesi A, Sachetto Z, de Medeiros Pinheiro M, Salviato Pileggi G, Sarot Pereira da Cunha G, Hajar FN, Marques Negrisolli Cunha ML, Henrique da Mota LM, Lopes Marques CD, Kakehasi AM, Rodrigues Ferreira WH, Araújo NC, Monteiro Gomides Reis AP, Rodrigues de Abreu Vieira RM, Ferreira GA, Danowski A, de Souza VA, Soares Egypto de Brito DC, Dos Santos Paiva E, Provenza JR, Feijó Azevedo V. How Did Patients Living With Immune-Mediated Rheumatic Diseases Face the Beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil? Results of the COnVIDa Study. J Clin Rheumatol 2024; 30:e29-e33. [PMID: 35699528 DOI: 10.1097/rhu.0000000000001882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought additional burden to patients living with immune-mediated rheumatic diseases (IMRDs), especially at the beginning of 2020, for which information for this population is lacking. METHODS COnVIDa is a cross-sectional study on patients with IMRD from all regions of Brazil who were invited to answer a specific and customized Web questionnaire about how they were facing the COVID-19 pandemic, especially focusing on health care access, use of medications, and patient-reported outcomes related to IMRD activity. The questionnaire was applied from June 1 to 30, 2020. RESULTS In total, 1722 of 2576 patients who answered the Web questionnaire were included in the final analysis. Participants were most frequently women, 56% were between 31 and 50 years old, and most (55%) has private health insurance. The most commonly reported IMRD was rheumatoid arthritis (39%), followed by systemic lupus erythematosus (28%). During the study period, 30.7% did not have access to rheumatology consultations, and 17.6% stopped chronic medications. Telemedicine was reported in 44.8% of patients. CONCLUSION COnVIDa demonstrated a negative impact on health care access and treatment maintenance of patients living with IMRD during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, it also presented an uptake of telemedicine strategies. Data presented in this study may assist future coping policies.
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Affiliation(s)
- Alisson Pugliesi
- From the Reumatologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas
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- From the Reumatologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas
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- Reumatologia, Hospital do Servidor Público Estadual de São Paulo-IAMSPE, São Paulo
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- Reumatologia, Hospital das Clínicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
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- Reumatologia, Hospital Federal dos Servidores do Estado-RJ, Rio de Janeiro
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- Reumatologia, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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