Patient empowerment: Apni Jung (our fight) against rheumatoid arthritis for South Asian population

TY - JOUR

T1 - Patient empowerment

T2 - Apni Jung (our fight) against rheumatoid arthritis for South Asian population

AU - Bosworth, Ailsa

AU - Dubey, Shirish

AU - Adebajo, Ade

AU - Moorthy, Arumugam

AU - Arora, Shivam

AU - Salim, Afshan

AU - Reehal, Joti

AU - Paudyal, Vibhu

AU - Gupta, Monica

AU - Kumar, Kanta

PY - 2021/6/30

Y1 - 2021/6/30

N2 - Covid-19 has affected many populations in the UK, and ethnic minority communities in particular. People from ethnic minority communities living with long-term chronic diseases have shown to be less engaging with self-management and report having poor medication adherence. The main reason to this problem is the way information is delivered to non-English speaking patients. This editorial discusses an innovation to over this barriers in rheumatology practice.

AB - Covid-19 has affected many populations in the UK, and ethnic minority communities in particular. People from ethnic minority communities living with long-term chronic diseases have shown to be less engaging with self-management and report having poor medication adherence. The main reason to this problem is the way information is delivered to non-English speaking patients. This editorial discusses an innovation to over this barriers in rheumatology practice.

KW - Education

KW - chronic condition

KW - ethnicity

KW - patient support

U2 - 10.31138/mjr.32.2.93

DO - 10.31138/mjr.32.2.93

M3 - Editorial

SN - 2529-198X

VL - 32

SP - 93

EP - 95

JO - Mediterranean journal of rheumatology

JF - Mediterranean journal of rheumatology

IS - 2

ER -