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- Title
Spousal understanding and marital satisfaction in pain patients and their spouses.
- Authors
Tate, Ashley M.; Martire, Lynn M.; Zhaoyang, Ruixue
- Abstract
The current study tested the hypotheses that knee osteoarthritis (OA) patients and spouses who report more spousal understanding of patient's pain would report greater marital satisfaction. A total of 124 couples completed interviews at three time points across 18 months. Results from dyadic analyses showed that patients who felt more understood by their spouse report, and have spouses who report, higher marital satisfaction concurrently. In addition, patients who felt more understood by their spouse reported higher marital satisfaction over time. Spouses' reports of understanding also had a significant influence on the patients' and their own marital satisfaction concurrently. Results highlight the importance of spouses understanding knee OA patients' pain for both dyad members' marital satisfaction.
- Subjects
OSTEOARTHRITIS; MARITAL satisfaction; MARITAL relations; MEDICAL care; QUALITY of life
- Publication
Personal Relationships, 2019, Vol 26, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
1350-4126
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/pere.12264