Sjögren's disease & overlap diseases
Influence of doctor-patient relationships and health-related factors on the medical satisfaction of patients with Sjögren's disease
Authors' conclusion
Pain and the use of artificial saliva alone markedly affected medical satisfaction and we expected the future advance in these two areas, pain and dryness, will improve satisfaction.
Study context
- Population
- Patients with Sjögren's disease (SjD) in Japan
- Participants
- 259 patients
- Exposure
- Satisfied vs neither satisfied nor dissatisfied vs dissatisfied with current treatment
- Satisfiedn = 101reference
- Neithern = 111
- Dissatisfiedn = 47
- Outcome
- Associations between medical satisfaction and symptoms, prescribed medications, anxiety, distress, expectations from treatments and doctor-patient relationships
Methodological detailsquestionnaire survey, multinomial logistic regression
- Questionnaire survey
- Multinomial logistic regression
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Satisfaction with current treatment
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
| Outcome | aRRR (95% CI) |
|---|---|
| Wanting systemic pain to disappearNeither vs Satisfied | 3.38 (1.66–6.91) |
| Wanting systemic pain to disappearDissatisfied vs Satisfied | 3.04 (1.30–7.15) |
| Use of artificial saliva onlyDissatisfied vs Satisfied · significantly more dissatisfied | 3.52 (1.03–2.04) |
| Dissatisfaction with doctor's limited understanding of SjDNeither vs Satisfied | 12.69 (4.21–38.24) |
| Dissatisfaction with doctor's limited understanding of SjDDissatisfied vs Satisfied | 32.76 (10.09–106.34) |
| Limited opportunities to ask doctor about diseaseNeither vs Satisfied | 0.19 (0.06–0.59) |
| Limited opportunities to ask doctor about diseaseDissatisfied vs Satisfied | 0.08 (0.02–0.24) |
Original publication
Influence of doctor-patient relationships and health-related factors on the medical satisfaction of patients with Sjögren's disease. Clin Exp Rheumatol. Published 15 January 2024. doi:10.
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