The Rheumatoid Arthritis Impact of Disease (RAID) score is a seven-question tool that captures how rheumatoid arthritis has affected you over the last week, across pain, physical function, fatigue, sleep, physical and emotional wellbeing, and coping. Complete it, save your result to track it over time, and print it to bring to your rheumatology appointment.
iAnswer each question based on how you have felt over the last 7 days, not just today. There are no right or wrong answers. This tool runs entirely in your browser: nothing you enter is saved to a server or sent anywhere. Saving a result stores it only in this browser, on this device.
Q1. Pain
Rate the pain you felt due to your rheumatoid arthritis during the last week.
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NoneExtreme
Q2. Functional disability
Rate the difficulty you had in doing daily physical activities due to your rheumatoid arthritis during the last week.
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No difficultyExtreme difficulty
Q3. Fatigue
Rate how much fatigue you felt due to your rheumatoid arthritis during the last week.
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No fatigueTotally exhausted
Q4. Sleep
Rate the sleep difficulties (resting at night) you felt due to your rheumatoid arthritis during the last week.
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No difficultyExtreme difficulty
Q5. Physical well-being
Considering your arthritis overall, how would you rate your level of physical well-being during the past week?
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Very goodVery bad
Q6. Emotional well-being
Considering your arthritis overall, how would you rate your level of emotional well-being during the past week?
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Very goodVery bad
Q7. Coping
Considering your arthritis overall, how well did you cope (manage, deal, make do) with your disease during the last week?
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Very wellVery poorly
Your RAID score
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0 · no impact10 · greatest impact
Move the sliders above to see your score.
About the scale. RAID runs from 0 to 10, where a higher number means rheumatoid arthritis had more impact on you that week. The seven areas carry different weights in the formula, pain, function, and fatigue count for more, reflecting how much patients said each mattered when the tool was developed. Treat any single score as one data point for a conversation with your team, not a diagnosis or a treatment decision on its own.
Your saved results
Dr. Dharini Mahendira Rheumatology · RAID result ·
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How the score is calculated
RAID = (0.21×Pain) + (0.16×Function) + (0.15×Fatigue) + (0.12×Sleep) + (0.12×Physical wellbeing) + (0.12×Emotional wellbeing) + (0.12×Coping). Each of the seven areas is scored from 0 to 10, and because the weights add up to 1, the result is itself a 0 to 10 score. Pain, function, and fatigue carry the most weight.
Rheumatoid Arthritis Impact of Disease (RAID), a EULAR initiative (Gossec L, et al. Ann Rheum Dis. 2009;68:1680 to 1685). Questionnaire and scoring reproduced from Holten K, et al. RMD Open. 2024;10:e003486.
