WhatPatientsThink.com

Happy spring! And with all beautiful flowers about to be covered in some late season snow, we thought it was a perfect time to dig a little into our WhatPatientsThink.com survey results. This covers a lot of different conditions: arthritis, fibromyalgia, asthma, etc.

But as you can see, we were scratching our heads a bit when we looked at various levels of satisfaction based on how long a patient has been diagnosed with a disease. As we've seen before, overall satisfaction with treatment was...well..."meh" is probably the technical term. (Joke.) That's about 3 on a scale of 1-5.

Our data shows people relatively recently diagnosed - less than five years and those diagnosed more than 25 years ago - are considerably more satisfied with their treatment than are those in the middle (between 6-25 years). 3.3 on a scale of 1-5 for the newly and long-ago diagnosed and 2.8 for those in between.

So what could be happening? We thought of a bunch of possibilities: the newly diagnosed are feeling better because they're now being treated, the long-ago diagnosed feeling better because they've long since adapted to their condition. But what about the middle group? Is their treatment really not working as well? Are other factors about their lives influencing their opinions Is it just a strange quirk of data? (We've got about the same number of respondents in each grouping.)

We're going to look some more at the specific diseases in question, what medications they're taking, and a whole bunch of other possibilities.

Any thoughts? Please chime in here or go to WhatPatientsThink.com to comment.

Happy New Year and here's to a healthy 2016! We hope you'll check us out and see what WhatPatientsThink.com are up to this year. http://ow.ly/WwdJi

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