O54 Rheumatic-musculoskeletal disorders in South Kerala—a WHO ILAR COPCORD Bhigwan model study

WHO-ILAR COPCORD Study (Stage 1, Urban Study) in Iran.

OBJECTIVE To find the prevalence of musculoskeletal complaints and rheumatic disorders in Iran. METHODS Tehran, with one-ninth of the population of Iran and of mixed ethnic origins, was selected as the field. Subjects were randomly selected from the 22 districts. Interviews were conducted once a week, on the weekend. The 3 phases of stage 1 were done on the same day, in parallel, like the fas...

Prevalence of the rheumatic diseases in urban Vietnam: a WHO-ILAR COPCORD study.

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence rates of musculoskeletal disorders in an urban Vietnamese population. METHODS The Community Oriented Program for Control of Rheumatic Disease (COPCORD) Stage I study was carried out in 16 groups in the Trung Liet Commune, Dong Da District, Hanoi City, Vietnam. Phase 1: the WHO ILAR COPCORD Core Questionnaire was applied by primary health care workers to 2...

WHO-ILAR COPCORD pilot study in Tehran, Iran.

Is there an urban-rural divide? Population surveys of rheumatic musculoskeletal disorders in the Pune region of India using the COPCORD Bhigwan model.

OBJECTIVE To estimate urban prevalence of rheumatic musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders and compare to an earlier rural regional study. METHODS We screened 8145 adults from a preselected urban locality in Pune, India, for MSK pain in a cross-sectional house-to-house survey (Stage I) over 20 weeks. The World Health Organization-International League of Associations for Rheumatology (WHO-ILAR) Commu...

Prevalence of osteoarthritis in rural areas of Iran: a WHO-ILAR COPCORD study.

AIM To estimate the prevalence of osteoarthritis (OA) of different joints in rural areas of Iran. METHODS From five villages of Tuyserkan County, 1565 individuals were randomly selected and were interviewed to complete the Community Oriented Programme for Control of the Rheumatic Diseases (COPCORD) Core Questionnaire. Among these cases 1192 cases with rheumatic complaints were examined by a r...