However, children with at least one lifetime psychiatric diagnosis had greater functional disability and poorer quality of life than those without a psychiatric diagnosis.
Compared with migraine attacks not related to menses, migraine attacks during menstruation have been shown to have longer duration and higher recurrence rates, are more resistant to treatment, and are associated with greater functional disability.
Generally, we expect that adults with greater functional disability will rate their health poorer than those with lower disability.
Scores are coded (0 = "no difficulty" and 1 = "difficulty") and summed so that higher scores indicated greater functional disability.
Patients with VFs have greater functional disability over time and a higher disease activity, suggesting that VFs may be prevented by optimal disease activity suppression.
Significant variables were sex, age, and education; being female, being older, and having a lower level of education were associated with greater functional disability (HAQ-DI).
Majerovitz and Revenson [ 37] disagree with those results, and indicate that greater functional disability is related to lower sexual satisfaction, especially for women.
Research suggests depression can cause greater functional disability than other chronic conditions such as diabetes, chronic lung disease, and hypertension [ 66].
Patients with vertebral fractures suffer greater functional disability over time than patients without, independent of a slightly higher rheumatic disease activity.
Finally, patients in the CM group had a statistically higher functional score (49.6±21.7) (ie, greater functional disability) at inclusion than patients in the Ho group (35.8±19.3) (P=0.008) or MX group (37.2±22.9) (P=0.017).
This proposal is consistent with the findings that our patients' risk perception was heavily influenced by experience of greater functional disability as well as past and present DMARD side effects.
