Vasculitis & polymyalgia rheumatica
Socioeconomic status in Behçet's syndrome
Authors' conclusion
BS patients had the lowest SES among all groups.
Study context
- Population
- Patients with Behçet's syndrome (BS), other chronic inflammatory diseases and healthy controls (HC), Turkey (Turkish-validated scales)
- Participants
- 506 / 144 / 113 / 140 / 94 / 402
- Exposure
- BS vs ankylosing spondylitis (AS), psoriatic arthritis (PsA), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), multiple sclerosis (MS) and HC
- BSn = 506
- ASn = 144
- PsAn = 113
- IBDn = 140
- MSn = 94
- HCn = 402reference
- Outcome
- SES-C score
Methodological detailsface-to-face administered scales, ordinal logistic regression
- Face-to-face administered scales
- Ordinal logistic regression
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Very low or low SES categories (SES-C)
Odds ratio
2.135
P < 0.001
BS · multivariate; independently associated with lower socioeconomic status (SES)
Odds ratio
1.709
P = 0.015
IBD · multivariate; independently associated with lower SES
Odds ratio
0.516
P = 0.009
MS · multivariate; associated with higher SES
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Predictors of lower SES within BS subgroup
- Employment status, OR
- 4.480 (p<0.001)
- BDCAF score, OR
- 1.154 (p=0.022)
- Lower SES persisted in BS patients without major organ involvement
Psychometric properties in Turkish (ICC)
- IFDFW ICC
- 0.979
- Socioeconomic Status Composite (SES-C) ICC
- 0.962
Original publication
Socioeconomic status in Behçet's syndrome. Clin Exp Rheumatol. Published 7 April 2026. doi:10.
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