Lupus & antiphospholipid syndrome
Grit personality of physicians and achievement of treatment goals in patients with system lupus erythematosus
Authors' conclusion
Difficulty of attending physicians to change treatment goals might be related to lower LLDAS achievement in patients with SLE.
Study context
- Population
- Patients with SLE and their attending physicians at five referral hospitals37 physicians
- Participants
- 386 patients
- Exposure
- Physicians' grit and patients' lupus low disease activity state (LLDAS) achievement
- Outcome
- Achievement of LLDAS
Methodological detailsmulticentre (five referral hospitals), generalized estimating equation (GEE) logistic regression with cluster robust variance estimation, adjusted for confounders
- Multicentre (five referral hospitals)
- GEE logistic regression with cluster robust variance estimation
- Adjusted for confounders
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
LLDAS achievement
Patients achieving LLDAS
154
40%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Physicians' Short Grit Scale scores, median (IQR)
- Total score
- 3.1 (2.9-3.6)
- Consistency score
- 3.3 (2.8-3.8)
- Perseverance score
- 3.3 (3.0-3.5)
Item 'I often set a goal but later choose to pursue a different one'
- Score significantly higher in patients achieving LLDAS
Original publication
Grit personality of physicians and achievement of treatment goals in patients with system lupus erythematosus. Rheumatology (Oxford). Published 20 October 2022. doi:10.
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