Background:

  An inflammatory illness that primarily impacts the hands and feet's tiny joints and causes inflammation,    rheumatoid arthritis is a persistent condition. It could lead to both fatalities and severe disabilities. Rheumatologic criteria (RF and anti-CCP) were used in research investigations to make the diagnosis. Rheumatoid arthritis, which affects 3% of women and 1% of men across all age groups, affects between 0.5 and 1% of the general population directly.

  Objective:

To evaluate the association of physical activity with the optimism of rheumatoid arthritis patients.

Methodology:

A cross-sectional study was conducted on 385 participants diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis clinically in THQ Aziz Bhatti Hospital Gujrat. Males and females between the ages of 35 and 60 were recruited for this study using non-probability convenient sampling. Selected participants were those who matched the inclusion and exclusion requirements. Diagnostic techniques for assessment included the LOTR-R and IPAQ-SF. Version 27.0 of the SPSS software was employed for data entry and analysis, with a 95% confidence interval. In order to ascertain the relationship between Physical Activity and Optimism in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients, the Spearman Correlation Coefficient was used.

Results:

Out of 385 individuals, the results showed that 326 of them were female and 59 were male. The patients had RA in various stages, with stage 1 and stage 2 being the most common. According to the correlation between optimism and RA, the majority of participants in stages 1 and 2 agree with the assertions about the good character of things, with only a small minority disagreeing. The connection between global physical activity and RA claims the majority of participants in stages 1 and 2 spend most of five days a week engaging in moderate physical activity. A tiny percentage of individuals were also engaging in intense physical activity. There was a positive and very significant correlation between optimism and physical exercise with p<0.001, respectively.

Conclusion:

326(84.7%) women had rheumatoid arthritis, and only 59(15.3%) men had RA. The Spearman coefficient correlation(r_s) between two ordinal variables (optimism and international physical activity) was positive and highly significant as the value of r_s was 0.312 showing a positive correlation between optimism and international physical activity and the P-value was 0.00 which was <0.001 so it was highly significant so we can say that interpret that high physical activity leads to more optimistic about Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Keywords:

Rheumatoid Arthritis, optimism, international physical activity, correlation