Table 3 Fears related to synthetic and biological DMARDs
From: Fears and beliefs of people living with rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic literature review
Fears | Author and year of publication |
|---|---|
Fear of treatment failure | Sanderson 2009 [60] |
Fear of being taken of a drug | Sanderson 2009 [60] |
Fear of side effects of treatment (mainly long- term side effects) | Goodacre 2004 [4] Popa-Lisseanu 2005 [61] Wong 2007 [5] Sanderson 2009 [60] Fitzcharles 2009 [62] Kumar 2011 [43] Van den Bent 2011 [63] Hayden 2015 [14] Gadallah 2015 [42] Pasma 2015 [15] Nota 2015 [64] |
Fear of “too many pills/too many drugs”, fear of over-prescription | Popa-Lisseanu 2005 [61] Wong 2007 [5] Fitzcharles 2009 [62] |
Fear of drug interaction | Fitzcharles 2009 [62] |
Fear of addiction | Goodacre 2004 [4] Wong 2007 [5] Sanderson 2009 [60] Fitzcharles 2009 [62] Kumar 2011 [43] Van den Bent 2011 [63] Nota 2015 [64] |
Fear of masking disease | Fitzcharles 2009 [62] |
Fear of drugs causing reduced life expectancy | Goodacre 2004 [4] |
Fear of being disappointed with a new treatment | Nyman 1999 [46] |
Fear of too many changes in therapy | Kumar 2011 [43] |