Arthritis

Description | Brief Reports | Reports| Publications | Presentations | Trend Graphs

Description

"Arthritis" is a term that is used to describe a disorder of one or more joints.  Osteoarthritis is one of the most common types of arthritis, affecting the cartilage in the joints.  Rheumatoid arthritis is the most common form of inflammatory arthritis that is characterised by joint swelling and destruction.

Information related to arthritis can be found below.

Brief Reports

2007-07 Arthritis and Associations with Chronic Conditions (65k)
2007-08 Arthritis and Associations with Mental Health Conditions (72k)
2006-01 SAMSS Prevalence of Arthritis in Health Regions (77k)
2004-06 Arthritis in South Australia 2004 - 06 (106k)

Reports

2011
Gill T, Wu J, Taylor A. Community Perceptions of Arthritis and Arthritis SA. School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, 2011.

Gill T, Wu J, Taylor A. Evaluation of Self-Management Course. School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, 2011.

Gill T, Wu J, Taylor A. Evaluation of Self-Management Course using the Health Education Impact Questionnaire. School of Medicine, University of Adelaide, 2011.

2007
Gill T, Jury H, Taylor A. An Epidemiological Analysis of Arthritis Prevalence Among South Australian Adults. March 2007.

2003
Gill T, Taylor A, Leach G, Parsons J. Arthritis in South Australia. Who has it and what is the impact?. March 2003.

Publications

Gill T, Taylor A, Leach G, Parsons J. Arthritis in South Australia. Who has it and what is the impact?. March 2003.

Hill C, Gill T, Menz HB, Taylor A, and the North West Adelaide Health Study team. Prevalence and correlates of foot pain in a population-based study: the North West Adelaide Health Study. Arthritis Care Res 2007; In press.

Hill CL, Gill T, Taylor AW, Daly A, Dal Grande E, Adams RJ. Psychological factors and quality of life in arthritis: a population-based study. Clin Rheumatol 2006; In press.

Hill C, Parsons J, Taylor A, Leach G. Health related quality of life in a population sample with arthritis. Journal of Rheumatology 1999. 6:2029-2035.

Leach G, Taylor A, Wilson D. Prevalence of medically-confirmed arthritis. Australian Journal of Public Health 1994 18:226.

Presentations

2007
Arthritis Foundation Education Committee, September 2007
An Epidemiological Analysis of Arthritis Prevalence Among South Australian Adults (148k)

Australian Rheumatology Association, Sydney, May 2007
The prevalence of arthritis and the association with other chronic conditions
Arthritis and associations with mental health conditions

19th IUHPE World Conference on Health Promotion and Health Education, Vancouver, Canada, 10-15 June 2007
Arthritis and social determinants in South Australia

2006
International Congress on Obesity Sydney, Sept 2006
Overweight and obesity as risk factors for arthritis

Health Outcomes Canberra, August 2006
Psychological Distress Associated with Arthritis, Diabetes, Asthma, Cardiovascular Disease and Mental Health Conditions

Australian Rheumatology Association, May 2006
The prevalence and impact of arthritis on psychological distress

2005
Australian Rheumatology Association Perth, May 2005
The prevalence and impact of arthritis on quality of life

2004
The 18th World Conference on Health Promotion and Health Education. Melbourne, Australia, April, 2004.
The impact of arthritis on health-related quality of life and mental health

Trend Graphs

The data used are collected via SAMSS:
Prevalence of Arthritis monthly
Prevalence of Arthritis by monthly graphs by sex