Calidad de vida en personas con artritis reumatoide a partir del Cuestionario de Calidad de Vida en la Artritis (QoL-RA) Life quality in people suffering rheumatoid arthritis, detected by the Quality of Life Questionnaire (QoL-RA)

The aim of this work was to determine the quality of life in people with rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis in a Colombian sample. 124 patients were evaluated with rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis, according the American Rheumatism Association. The obtained results were compared with the information from a similar research carried out in the United States. The life quality was measured through Spanish version of the Quality of Life Questionaire (QoL-RA). Results show that Colombian patients with rheumatoid arthritis had a better life quality in all QoL-RA dimensions compared with the United States patients who participated in the original test application, American as well Latin-American.