The Faculty of Pharmacy discussed the master thesis tagged “effect of medication-related burden on disease activity among a sample of Iraqi patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis” The thesis aimed to measure MRB for a sample of Iraqi RA patients and explore any relationships between MRB and patient-related factors, including disease activity. The study was conducted on patients who had already been diagnosed. The Arabic form of the “Living with Medicines Questionnaire” was used to measure MRB. While the disease activity was calculated by both the “Disease-Activity-Score_Erythrocyte-sedimentation-Rate (DAS28-ESR)” and the “Clinical-Disease Activity_Index (CDAI)”. The study includes 250 patients, with women bearing the greatest burden; illiterate patients; patients on chronic medications for more than five years; patients with chronic disease(s); patients with RA for more than five years; and patients who obtained their medications entirely or partially from private pharmacies. In addition total LMQ and visual analogue scale scores had a positive correlation with CDAI-value.
