The Effect of Disease Activity Index and Level of Pain on the Disease Coping Attitudes in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients
Journal Title: Eurasian Journal of Family Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 3
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Aim: The aim of this study was to search the effect of disease activity index and level of pain on the disease coping attitudes in rheumatoid arthritis patients. Methods: This study has been carried out on 190 rheumatoid arthritis patients. A questionnaire including the demographic and socio-cultural properties of the patients and The COPE Inventory, Disease Activity Score and Visual Analogue Scale have been used as data collection tools. Student’s t test, analysis of variance and calculation of Pearson correlation coefficient have been used in statistical analysis. Results: It has been found that the patients used emotion oriented coping attitudes most frequently. Of the emotion oriented coping methods, the first was religious coping and the second was positive reinterpretation and growth method. The humor, restraint, use of emotional social support, substance use and acceptance mean points were statistically significantly high in patients using medicine. There was positive correlation between age and behaviorally disengagement and restraint, rheumatoid arthritis disease duration/years and use of emotional social support, Disease Activity Score points and religious coping COPE Inventory subscale points. A positive significant correlation was found between the number of tender joints and focus on and venting on emotions, using instrumental social support and use of emotional social support COPE Inventory subscale points. Conclusions: Our study demonstrated that the most frequent coping method used by the patients was emotion oriented coping attitudes. There was positive correlation between the Disease Activity Score and religious coping and suppression of competing activities, Visual Analogue Scale and religious coping points.
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Selçuk Mıstık
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