NRAS has been approached by a researcher for INNERVATE who are trialling a way of measuring the impact of a Long Term Condition such as RA on the individual’s Quality Of Life. If you would like to help please contact Dr Neil Bindemann directly (see full details below) and mention that you heard about it via the NRAS Forum.

LifepsycholQoL is a new tool that has been developed to help people show their health professional how their quality of life is being affected by a long term condition. The company that developed LifepsycholQoL, Innervate Ltd, would like to offer up to 20 people with rheumatoid arthritis the opportunity to trial the tool and also give some feedback. LifepsycholQoL comes in the form of either a hand held dial or an electronic dial which is accessible from a website. The dial has been designed to help capture important information about how your long term condition affects key issues e.g. fatigue, relationships. By completing the dial it is hoped that it will help people to show their health professional, in a visual form, the general impact of the condition on their quality of life.

We hope, by inviting people to trial the dial, to be able to gain some useful feedback on the tool and hopefully provide some evidence that indicates LifepsycholQoL can help to address a person’s quality of life issues. If you would like to receive a copy of the dial please make contact with Dr Neil Bindemann at Innervate Ltd via info@innervate.co.uk or contact 02034 795 590.

For more information please visit www.innervate.co.uk

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