Author Affiliations: Department of Radiotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany. (Dr Babadağ Savaş); Department of Internal Medicine Nursing, Faculty of Health Science (Dr Balcı Alparslan), Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine (Dr Çolak), and Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, School of Medicine (Mrs Orlu [retired] and Dr Korkmaz), Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey.

Author Contributions: B.B.S.: concept and design, data management, ethics, statistics, writing and revising of the article; N.O.: patient recruitment, data management. G.B.A.: concept and design, ethics, data management, writing and revising of article. E.C.: concept and design, ethics, statistics, writing and revising of article. C.K.: concept and design, data management, patient recruitment, ethics, writing and revising of the article. All authors reviewed and approved the final manuscript. All coauthors take full responsibility for the integrity and accuracy of all aspects of the work.

The authors thank the staff at the rheumatology outpatient clinic and IV therapy unit and patients agreeing to participate in the study.

This study has been supported by Eskisehir Osmangazi University Scientific Research Projects Coordination Unit under grant no. 202042005. This unit does not have any financial support for publication process.

An abstract of this manuscript was presented as an oral presentation at the “ICRNIPCC 2022: 16th International Conference on Rheumatology Nursing Interventions and Person-Centred Care”, in Berlin, Germany on July 21-22, 2022.

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Correspondence: Burcu Babadağ Savaş, PhD, RN, Department of Radiotherapy, Hannover Medical School, OE 8240, Carl-Neuberg-Str 1, 30625 Hannover, Germany ([email protected]).