Rheumatoid Arthritis
Awareness Week is an important week in the National Rheumatoid Arthritis
Society’s (NRAS) calendar. As the name suggests, its aim is to raise awareness
and challenge misconceptions and attitudes people may have around Rheumatoid Arthritis
Awareness. By dedicating a week to raising awareness the NRAS aim to broaden
perceptions, knowledge and understanding of this disease.
Rheumatoid
Arthritis Awareness Week 2017 will focus on ‘Invisible Illness’ and what goes
on ‘Behind the Smile’. “People who break their arm or experience an injury are
obviously in bad shape but we can see their injury and understand their
limitations. But for the millions of people who are living with an invisible
illness such as rheumatoid arthritis, explaining what's wrong is another side
effect of the condition. Not only do they have to put up with challenging,
often painful, and sometimes debilitating conditions every day, but on top of
that, they may have to face scepticism from people - friends, family, and co-workers, as well as
strangers who don't understand what's wrong.”
For more information about Rheumatoid
Arthritis Awareness Week, please visit the National Rheumatoid
Arthritis Society website: http://www.nras.org.uk/ .
RELATED HEALTH LIBRARY RESOURCES
For anyone studying
the Rheumatoid Arthritis and its effects and associated issues, the Health
Library offers numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below
you’ll find our most popular items, information on materials recently added to
our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to
our online catalogue or ask at the
counter.
BOOKS
·
Rheumatoid
arthritis / by John
D. Isaacs Larry W Moreland, 2011, 2nd edition, Abingdon: Health Press.
Available in print and as an e-book.
·
Another Alice : an
inspiring true story of a young woman's battle to overcome rheumatoid arthritis / by Alice. Peterson,
2009, Thriplow : Icon.
·
Essential
orthopaedics and trauma / by David J. Dandy Dennis J Edwards, 2009, 5th edition, Edinburgh :
Churchill Livingstone
· Oxford textbook of
rheumatology / by Richard Watts et al., 2013, 4th edition, Oxford:
Oxford University Press
·
Managing long-term
conditions and chronic illness in primary care : a guide to good practice / by Judith Carrier, 2016, Abingdon: Routledge
JOURNALS
·
International journal
of advances in rheumatology, London : Remedica Pub. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2009 onwards].
· The open
rheumatology journal, Hilversum : Bentham Science Publishers. [Available as a Keele &
NHS ejournal 2007 onwards].
· British journal of rheumatology, Oxford, UK :
Oxford University Press. [Available in print 1994 – 1998, & as a Keele ejournal 1996 – 1998, &
NHS e-journal 1994 - 1998].
·
Open access
rheumatology : research and reviews, Auckland, NZ : Dove Medical Press. [Available
as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2009 onwards].
·
Case Reports in
Rheumatology, New York,
NY : Hindawi Publishing Corporation. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal
2011 onwards].
·
Arthritis & Rheumatism, Philadelphia :
J.B. Lippincott Co. : Arthritis Foundation : American College of Rheumatology.
[Available as a Keele ejournal 1958 onwards, & NHS e-journal 1994 onwards
with 1 year embargo].
·
Arthritis, New York, NY :
Hindawi Pub. Corp. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2010 onwards].
·
Arthritis Care and
Research, Hoboken,
NJ : John Wiley & Sons. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1999 onwards, &
NHS e-journal 1999 onwards with 1 year embargo].
Access more
journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/
JOURNAL ARTICLES
·
Gallacher, Rose. ‘Rheumatoid arthritis’, Nursing standard, 2015. Vol.30(13), pp.61-2 [Available via Keele
& NHS ejournals]
·
Watad, Abdulla and Bragazzi, Nicola L. et al. ’Anxiety disorder among
rheumatoid arthritis patients: Insights from real-life data’ Journal of Affective Disorders,
2017. Vol.213, pp.30-34 [Available via
Keele & NHS ejournals]
·
Bosworth, Ailsa and Steuer, Alan. ‘Rheumatoid arthritis’, British Medical Journal, 2011.
Vol.342(7788), p.104 [Available in print, and via Keele & NHS ejournals]
·
Smolen, Josef S and Aletaha, Daniel et al. ‘Rheumatoid arthritis’, The Lancet, 2016. Vol.388(10055),
pp.2023-2038 [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
·
Meyfroidt, Sabrina and Van Der Elst, Kristien et al. ‘Patient
experiences with intensive combination-treatment strategies with
glucocorticoids for early rheumatoid arthritis’, Patient Education and Counseling, 2015. Vol.98(3), pp.384-390
[Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
·
Mattey, Derek et al. ‘Smoking and disease severity in rheumatoid
arthritis; association with polymorphism at the glutathione S-transferase M1
locus’, Arthritis & Rheumatology,
2002, Vol. 46(3), pp.640–646 [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
·
Kristiansen TM, Primdahl J, Antoft R, Hørslev-Petersen K., ‘Everyday
life with rheumatoid arthritis and implications for patient education and
clinical practice: a focus group study.’ Musculoskeletal
Care, 2012, Vol. 10(1), pp.29-38. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
PATIENT
INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE
Rheumatoid
Arthritis – NHS Evidence search with ‘Information for the Public’ filter https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/Search?om=[{%22ety%22:[%22Information%20for%20the%20Public%22]}]&q=rheumatoid+arthritis
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