Development and psychometric validation of a patient-reported outcome measure to assess fears in rheumatoid arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis : the Fear Assessment in Inflammatory Rheumatic diseases (FAIR) questionnaire

Laure Gossec (1, 2) , Pierre Chauvin (2) , Alain Saraux (3, 4, 5) , Christophe Hudry (6) , Gabrielle Cukierman (7) , Thibault de Chalus (7) , Caroline Dreuillet (8) , Vincent Saulot (8) , Sabine Tong (9) , Françoise Russo-Marie (8) , Jean-Michel Joubert (7) , Francis Berenbaum (10)

1 Department of Rheumatology
2 iPLESP - Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique
3 LBAI - Lymphocytes B, Autoimmunité et Immunothérapies
4 Hôpital de la Cavale Blanche - Centre National de Référence CERAINO, Service de Rhumatologie
5 LabEX IGO Immunothérapie Grand Ouest
6 Service de rhumatologie [CHU Cochin]
7 UCB Pharma, Colombes
8 Arthritis R&D - Arthritis Recherche & Développement
9 Axonal-Biostatem [Nanterre]
10 CRSA - Centre de Recherche Saint-Antoine

To develop and validate an outcome measure for assessing fears in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA).

Keywords: ankylosing spondylitis; patient perspective; rheumatoid arthritis

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]

Laure Gossec, Pierre Chauvin, Alain Saraux, Christophe Hudry, Gabrielle Cukierman, et al.. Development and psychometric validation of a patient-reported outcome measure to assess fears in rheumatoid arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis : the Fear Assessment in Inflammatory Rheumatic diseases (FAIR) questionnaire. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 2018, 77 (2), pp.258 - 263. ⟨10.1136/annrheumdis-2017-212000⟩. ⟨hal-01795691⟩