Predictors of the likelihood that patients with rheumatoid arthritis will communicate information about rheumatoid arthritis risk to relatives: a quantitative assessment.
Wells, Imogen Zemedikun, Dawit T Simons, Gwenda Stack, Rebecca J Mallen, Christian D Raza, Karim Falahee, Marie
Wells, Imogen
Zemedikun, Dawit T
Simons, Gwenda
Stack, Rebecca J
Mallen, Christian D
Raza, Karim
Falahee, Marie
Abstract
First-degree relatives (FDRs) of people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are increasingly recruited to prediction and prevention studies. Access to FDRs is usually via their proband with RA. Quantitative data on predictors of family risk communication are lacking. RA patients completed a questionnaire assessing likelihood of communicating RA risk information to their FDRs, demographic variables, disease impact, illness perceptions, autonomy preferences, interest in FDRs taking a predictive test for RA, dispositional openness, family functioning, and attitudes towards predictive testing. Ordinal regression examined associations between patients' characteristics and their median likelihood of communicating RA risk to FDRs. Questionnaires were completed by 482 patients. The majority (75.1%) were likely/extremely likely to communicate RA risk information to FDRs, especially their children. Decision-making preferences, interest in FDRs taking a predictive test, and beliefs that risk knowledge would increase people's empowerment over their health increased patients' odds of being likely to communicate RA risk information to FDRs. Beliefs that risk information would cause stress to their relatives decreased odds that patients would be likely to communicate RA risk. These findings will inform the development of resources to support family communication about RA risk.
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Date
2023-03-24
Type
Article
Subject
Diseases & disorders of systemic, metabolic or environmental origin
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Citation
Wells I, Zemedikun DT, Simons G, Stack RJ, Mallen CD, Raza K, Falahee M. Predictors of the likelihood that patients with rheumatoid arthritis will communicate information about rheumatoid arthritis risk to relatives: A quantitative assessment. Patient Educ Couns. 2023 Jul;112:107713. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2023.107713. Epub 2023 Mar 24.
Journal / Source Title
Patient Education and Counseling
DOI
10.1016/j.pec.2023.107713
PMID
37003160
Publisher
Elsevier
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/patient-education-and-counseling