Modern Approaches to the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis: Issues of Low Efficacy of Pharmacotherapy from the Point of View of Treatment Adherence

Abstract

The psychological and social aspects of rheumatoid arthritis have been the subject of research for many years, but there are still many contRFversial, insufficiently studied issues, and the interpretation of some of them is very contradictory. Among them is the relationship between the clinical, psychological and social characteristics of patients with RA; work on a comprehensive assessment of quality of life as an integral indicator of health is rare; factors influencing quality of life have been little studied. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends defining quality of life as the relationship between human health indicators and socio-economic factors, which is assessed as a set of physical, emotional, mental and intellectual characteristics of a person that determine his ability to function in society. However, the medical concept of quality of life includes primarily indicators related to human health.