Health Care–Seeking Behaviors, Disease Progression, Medications, Knowledge of, and Attitudes Toward Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in China: Cross-sectional Survey Study

Zonglin Dai   ¹ , MPH, PhD ;   Xinxiang Huang   ² , MMed ;   Fei Yuan   ³ , MMed ;   Tianwang Li   ⁴ , PhD ;   Baozhao Xie   ⁵ , MMed ;   He Lin   ⁶ , BMed ;   Pingting Yang   ⁷ , PhD ;   Xueyi Li   ⁸ , MMed ;   Shuiming Xu   ⁹ , BMed ;   Jinjun Zhao   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Yukai Wang   ¹¹ , PhD ;   Xiang Peng   ¹² , PhD ;   Simin Wei   ¹³ , BMed ;   Wei Huang   ¹⁴ , MMed ;   Jingyang Li   ¹⁵ , MMed ;   Jing Liang   ¹⁶ , BMed ;   Xiuhua Liu   ¹⁷ , BMed ;   Yongliang Chu   ¹⁸ , MMed ;   Zhiming Zhang   ¹⁹ , BMed ;   Renpeng Zhang   ²⁰ , BMed ;   Eric H Y Lau   ^{1, 21 *} , PhD ;   Zhiming Lin   ^{22 *} , PhD

¹ School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

² Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The People's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Nanning, China

³ Department of Rheumatology, Dongguan People's Hospital, Dongguan, China

⁴ Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Guangdong Second Provincial General Hospital, Guangzhou, China

⁵ Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The Seventh Affiliated Hospital, Guangxi Medical University, Wuzhou, China

⁶ Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Fujian Provincial Hospital, Shengli Clinical Medical College of Fujian Medical University, Fujian, China

⁷ Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The First Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China

⁸ Department of Rheumatology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China

⁹ Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Ganzhou Municipal Hospital, Ganzhou, China

¹⁰ Department of Rheumatology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

¹¹ Division of Rheumatology, Shantou Central Hospital, Shantou, China

¹² Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University (Qingyuan People's Hospital), Qingyuan, China

¹³ Division of Rheumatology, Guigang People's Hospital, Guigang, China

¹⁴ Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Hainan General Hospital, Hainan Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Haikou, China

¹⁵ Division of Rheumatology, The Affiliated Zhuzhou Hospital of Xiangya Medical College of Central South University, Zhuzhou, China

¹⁶ Department of Rheumatology, Huadu Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China

¹⁷ Division of Rheumatology, Liuzhou Worker's Hospital, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Liuzhou, China

¹⁸ Division of Rheumatology, Guangdong Province Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhuhai Branch, Zhuhai, China

¹⁹ Division of Rheumatology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China

²⁰ Division of Rheumatology, The First People's Hospital of Zhaotong, Zhaotong, China

²¹ Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

²² Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

*these authors contributed equally