The two objectives of this trial are :1 To evaluate the impact of a visit with a nurse checking the preventive modalities and/or the presence of comorbidities such as infections ( e.g. vaccinations), cardiovascular-diseases (e.g. Indication to statin, antiaggregant,anti-hypertensive treatment…), cancers (e.g.mammography,…), osteoporosis (e.g. bone densitometry,..) in patients suffering from Rheumatoid Arthritis 2 To evaluate the impact of an educational program aimed at permitting rheumatoid arthritis patients to auto-evaluate their disease activity by collecting the Disease Activity Score (DAS28-ESR).
Patients with a stable definite Rheumatoid Arthritis will be invited by their rheumatologists to participate at this study in 20 centers in France. After written informed consent will be obtained, the patients will be randomized in two arms: * comorbidities * auto-DAS The patients will be seen again in the same center six months later in order to collect the outcome measures.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
970
" Comorbidities treatment":Number of actions initiated in order to treat or prevent Rheumatoid Arthritis comorbidities during the 6 months follow-up
"Auto-DAS"Number of patients with a modification in their treatment between baseline and 6 months visits
Hôpital Cochin
Paris, France
Comorbidities treatment
Number of actions initiated I order to treat or prevent Rheumatoid Arthritis comorbidities
Time frame: 6 months later
Auto-DAS: Patient education to calculate his Disease Activity Score
Number of patients with a modification in their treatment between baseline and 6 months visits
Time frame: 6 months after
Frequency of comorbidities in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Time frame: 6 months later
Adhesion to the current recommendations concerning the prevention of co-morbidities
Time frame: 6 months later
Compliance and satisfaction of the patients concerning the DAS educational program
Time frame: 6 months later
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