Illness behaviour in patients with arthritis.

Abstract

Objectives-To determine if there are specific patterns of illness behaviour in patients with arthritis, and if abnormal patterns of illness behaviour are associated with withdrawal from trials of antiinflammatory drugs, and to examine which aspects ofillness behaviour are perceived by rheumatologists to be related to the disease process. Methods-The illness behaviour questionnaire (IBQ) was administered to 211

The measurement of abnormal illness behavior: Toward a new research agenda for the Illness Behavior Questionnaire

“…There have also been few attempts to compare the IBQ responses characteristic of more than one medical condition within the same study. Illustrative medical conditions for which AIB has been examined include myocardial infarction [55][56][57][58], rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis [59,60], stroke [33], Meniere's disease [61], HIV/AIDS [62], and cancer [63].…”

Fears and beliefs of people living with rheumatoid arthritis: a systematic literature review

“…Nyman et al also showed that psychological factors, such as stress, overwork, anxiety or a distressing life event, for example bereavement or divorce were cited by 59.7% of AR patients as triggers factors leading to disease [46]. Other authors also demonstrated that most part of RA patients believe the cause of their disease was psychological in nature and that RA patients more readily admitted that psychological factors contributed to their illness compared to osteoarthritis patients [36,50]. The psychological attribution as cause of RA seemed to have negative consequences: it was positively correlated with patient-related delay between beginning of symptoms and the first visit with general practitioner as well as with the tendency to use dysfunctional coping strategies [47,49].…”

“…Although most patients with RA believed their synthetic and biological DMARDS were necessary to preserve joint structures, reduce pain and increase quality of life, levels of concern about side effects were high and related to non-adherence [3,5,15,16,[41][42][43][44]. Beliefs about cause of disease expressed by RA patients in 9 studies (12.1% of articles reporting beliefs) included: hereditarity, stress, unexpressed grief, diet, occupational factors/overwork, lack of exercise, God's will, weather conditions, biological reasons/immune system failure/autoimmunity, accident/chance and karmic explanation (disease caused by past "bad" actions) [18,36,43,[45][46][47][48][49][50].…”

Association between psychosocial factors and dose of neuromuscular electrical stimulation in subjects with rheumatoid arthritis

“…Thirdly, patients with RA experience significant functional limitations and NMES can be a viable alternative for the most disabled patients who have difficulty performing voluntary exercises at sufficient intensity to reverse muscle weakness and atrophy. Finally, patients with RA tend to be more affected by psychological factors than healthy adults and may provide a wide range of these attributes in order to test the association with NMES dose (28-30). …”