Pediatric rheumatology

School Well-Being and Academic Performance of Children With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A National Register-Based Study

J RheumatolPublished Cross-sectional study

Main finding · School well-being (DNWQ)Result — go to the resultOdds ratio 0.89 95% CI 0.81–0.99

Authors' conclusion

Overall, children with JIA report SWB comparable to that of children without JIA and perform equally well in school as children without JIA.

Study context

Population
Danish schoolchildren in national registers (DNWQ, National Danish School Testing (NDST), ninth-grade final marks)separate cohorts: 505,340
Exposure
Children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) vs peers without JIA
Outcome
School well-being (DNWQ), national test results (NDST) and ninth-grade final marks in Danish and mathematics
Methodological detailspopulation-wide, register-based, national (Danish registers), adjusted ordinal logistic regression and linear regression
  • Population-wide
  • Register-based
  • National (Danish registers)
  • Adjusted ordinal logistic regression and linear regression

Main finding

School well-being (DNWQ)

Odds ratio

0.89

95% CI 0.81–0.99

JIAvs Without JIA
OR 0.89 (95% CI 0.81–0.99)

As reported in the abstract

Observational data: associations, not effects.

Further findings

Stratification by socioeconomic status (SES)

No significant differences in the associations

Original publication

School Well-Being and Academic Performance of Children With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A National Register-Based Study. J Rheumatol. Published 1 April 2024. doi:10.3899/jrheum.2023-1197

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