Tele-health interventions to support self-management in adults with rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a long-term auto-immune condition is a challenging condition for patients to manage. Goals of treatment include reducing pain, decreasing inflammation, and improving an individual's overall function. Increasingly technology is being utilised to support patients to self-manage their condition. The aim of this systematic narrative review was to synthesise and critically appraise published evidence concerning the effectiveness of tele-health interventions to support self-management in RA. Bibliographic databases searched from 2014 to March 2020 included MedLINE, Embase, Cochrane Library. Search strategy combined the following concepts: (1) rheumatoid arthritis, (2) tele-health interventions, and (3) self-management. Only randomised controlled trials (RCTs) involving

SUBMITTER: MacIver A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8245362 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature