Comment on: Associations between loneliness, disease activity, and disease impact in inflammatory arthritis: a nationwide cross-sectional study among more than 12 000 patients
Dear Editor, I read the article entitled ‘Associations between loneliness, disease activity, and disease impact in inflammatory arthritis: a nationwide cross-sectional study among more than 12 000 patients’ by Vestergaard et al. [1] with interest. The authors assessed loneliness in patients with inf...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) Editorial |
| Language: | English |
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July 2025
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Rheumatology
Year: 2025, Volume: 64, Issue: 7, Pages: 4440-4441 |
| ISSN: | 1462-0332 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/rheumatology/keaf104 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keaf104 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://academic.oup.com/rheumatology/article/64/7/4440/8020803#google_vignette 
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| Author Notes: | Ufuk Ilgen |
| Summary: | Dear Editor, I read the article entitled ‘Associations between loneliness, disease activity, and disease impact in inflammatory arthritis: a nationwide cross-sectional study among more than 12 000 patients’ by Vestergaard et al. [1] with interest. The authors assessed loneliness in patients with inflammatory arthritis via digital mail with a single yes/no question: ‘Are you ever alone, although you would prefer to be together with others?’ They reported an association of loneliness with disease activity and impact, and stated the single-item question as a limitation of the study because it was not validated and might not have captured the full construct of loneliness. I believe that this limitation requires further discussion since the interpretations of the study were all built on this question. |
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| Item Description: | Online veröffentlicht: 18. Februar 2025 Gesehen am 07.08.2025 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1462-0332 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/rheumatology/keaf104 |