Osteoarthritis - Psychology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Responsiveness of the Effective Consumer Scale (EC-17).

30 Aug 2009 OBJECTIVE: The Effective Consumer Scale (EC-17) comprises 17 items measuring the main skills and behaviors people need to effectively manage their healthcare. We tested the responsiveness of the EC-17. METHODS: Participants, in 2 waves of a 6-week ... Read more...

Experiencing painful osteoarthritis: what have we learned from listening?

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Despite the central role of pain in osteoarthritis, until recently, relatively little attention was paid to the osteoarthritis pain experience, including the features of osteoarthritis pain that are most important to people living ... Read more...

Psychosocial factors and the pain experience of osteoarthritis patients: new findings and new directions.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The present paper reviews recent psychosocial research in the area of osteoarthritis pain. First, the review highlights studies of psychosocial factors that can influence osteoarthritis pain. Next, research testing the efficacy of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Osteoarthritis - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Responsiveness of the Effective Consumer Scale (EC-17). 30 Aug 2009
• Experiencing painful osteoarthritis: what have we learned from listening? 30 Aug 2009
• Psychosocial factors and the pain experience of osteoarthritis patients: new findings and new directions. 30 Aug 2009
• Measurement of change in function and disability in osteoarthritis: current approaches and future challenges. 30 Aug 2009
• Illness perceptions in patients with osteoarthritis: change over time and association with disability. 13 Aug 2009
• Health-related quality of life after hip arthroplasty with and without an extended-duration continuous posterior lumbar plexus nerve block: a prospective, 1-year follow-up of a randomized, triple-masked, placebo-controlled study. 30 Jul 2009
• Problems experienced by people with arthritis when using a computer. 13 May 2009
• Measuring the impact and distress of osteoarthritis from the patients' perspective. 27 Apr 2009
• Satisfaction of osteoarthritis patients with provided care is not related to the disease-specific quality of life. 5 Apr 2009
• Do OA patients gain additional benefit from care from a clinical nurse specialist?--a randomized clinical trial. 23 Mar 2009
• A nursing approach to pain in older adults. 27 Feb 2009
• Daily affect relations in fibromyalgia patients reveal positive affective disturbance. 25 Feb 2009
• Hand problems in community-dwelling older adults: onset and effect on global physical function over a 3-year period. 30 Jan 2009
• Associations between chronic disease, age and physical and mental health status. 30 Dec 2008
• Late and very-late first-contact schizophrenia and the risk of dementia--a nationwide register based study. 30 Dec 2008
• [Effect of protracted therapy with chondroprotectors and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on the quality of life in patients with osteoarthrosis] 30 Dec 2008
• Patients on the waiting list for total hip replacement: a 1-year follow-up study. 29 Nov 2008
• Exploring the relationship between cognition and self-reported pain in residents of homes for the elderly. 18 Nov 2008
• Care management for depression and osteoarthritis pain in older primary care patients: a pilot study. 30 Oct 2008
• The patient-rated wrist evaluation (PRWE): cross-cultural adaptation into German and evaluation of its psychometric properties. 30 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Osteoarthritis'

Definition: A progressive, degenerative joint disease, the most common form of arthritis, especially in older persons. The disease is thought to result not from the aging process but from biochemical changes and biomechanical stresses affecting articular cartilage. In the foreign literature it is often called osteoarthrosis deformans.

Descriptor UI: D010003

Alternative terms: Osteoarthritis; Osteoarthritides; Osteoarthrosis; Osteoarthroses; Arthritis, Degenerative; Arthritides, Degenerative; Degenerative Arthritides; Degenerative Arthritis; Osteoarthrosis Deformans;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; congenital; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; embryology; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; veterinary; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C05.550.114.606; C05.799.613;

Technical Notes: most common form of arthritis