Rheumatology advances in practice

Mindfulness-based stress reduction to improve depression, pain and high patient global assessment in controlled rheumatoid arthritis.

Rheumatology advances in practice 2022 Isabelle Gaboury, Patricia L Dobkin, Françoise Gendron et al.

The aim was to improve distressing patient-reported outcomes (PROs) that persisted in RA patients with clinically controlled inflammation (controlled RA). In a pragmatic pilot study, we offered mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), a group intervention, to controlled RA patients who had high (≥16) Centre for Evaluation Studies depression (CES-D) scores and/or patient general assessment of...