Introduction:

rheumatoid arthritis has been reported to have a significant impact on physical function and work productivity.

Objectives:

To determine the labor productivity of patient’s diagnosis with early rheumatoid arthritis and to identify its possible relationship with sociodemographic and clinical variables.

Methods:

A cross-sectional descriptive observational study was carried out in 53 patients treated at the Reference Center for Rheumatic Diseases between January to December 2019. To evaluate labor productivity, the WPAIR AR questionnaire was used.

Results:

patients between 35-55 years of age predominated 60.4%, the female sex 60.4%. Labor productivity measured by WPAI AR reported during the last 7 days an average of 4.64 working hours lost, secondary to early rheumatoid arthritis, with a percentage of loss due to absenteeism of 16.5% and presenteeism of 59.6%.

Conclusion:

Conclusion: the highest percentage of affectation of labor productivity corresponded to labor presenteeism. Loss of work productivity was significantly associated with clinical activity, functional capacity, and health-related quality of life.

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