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- Title
Daily stressors and systemic lupus erythematosus: a longitudinal analysis--first findings.
- Authors
Wekking, E.M.; Vingerhoets, A.J.J.M.; van Dam, A.P.; Nossent, J.C.; Swaak, A.J.J.G.; Vingerhoets, A J; Swaak, A J
- Abstract
Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and a comparison group of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) completed the Dutch Everyday Problem Checklist and the Dutch Arthritis Impact Measurement Scale measuring physical and psychosocial aspects of illness. Both scales were completed 9 times at 6-week intervals. In addition several hematological and serological parameters were assayed. Analysis over several time points resulted in only weak correlations between the variables under study. The most remarkable finding of this study was that in SLE patients number and intensity of daily stressors are more strongly related to physical and psychosocial status than in RA patients.
- Subjects
ACTIVITIES of daily living; ADAPTABILITY (Personality); COMPARATIVE studies; HEALTH status indicators; LONGITUDINAL method; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; RESEARCH; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; RHEUMATOID arthritis; EVALUATION research; SYSTEMIC lupus erythematosus; PSYCHOLOGICAL factors; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics, 1991, Vol 55, Issue 2-4, p108
- ISSN
0033-3190
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1159/000288416