Pain and functional limitations in individuals with rheumatoid arthritis

MacKinnon,; Wr, Avison; Ga, McCain

doi:10.1097/00004356-199403000-00005

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“…she just doesn't respond. (Caregiver 3) Caring for spouses with AD can be distinguished from caring for spouses with other chronic conditions such as stroke (Boylstein & Rittman, 2003), rheumatoid arthritis (MacKinnon, Avison, & McCain, 1994), and cancer (Schroevers, Ranchor, & Sanderman, 2006) because of the difficulty the spouse has in maintaining a sense of cognitive continuity after diagnosis. People with stroke, rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer experience personal changes in profound ways.…”

Section: Disruptionmentioning

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Reconstructing Marital Closeness While Caring for a Spouse With Alzheimer’s

Boylstein

Hayes

2011

Journal of Family Issues

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This study examines how people caring for a spouse with Alzheimer's disease reconstruct the meaning of closeness within their marriage. In-depth interviews were conducted with 13 men and 15 women. The authors discovered that significant changes in the social identity of the impaired spouse may have important implications for how caregivers view their marriage and their ability to reestablish a sense of marital closeness. The majority of caregivers experienced significant disruptions in their marriage as a result of their respective spouse's dementia. The authors further discovered that the caregiver wives in the study sample were more likely than caregiver husbands to report that perceived changes in the spouses' identity altered how they identified themselves within their marriage, leading to longer term disruption of marital closeness. The findings suggest that retaining a sense of marital closeness is often quite difficult for caregiving spouses, pointing to the need for specific types of caregiver education and support.

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Section: Disruptionmentioning

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Reconstructing Marital Closeness While Caring for a Spouse With Alzheimer’s

Boylstein

Hayes

2011

Journal of Family Issues

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“…(1993), in contrast, found when studying musculoskeletal pain in the USA that this type of pain was more common among old women than among old men. Pain was found to be common among people with RA/OA and many with RA and OA face a life with chronic pain to various degrees (Mattson & Broström, 1991; Mackinnon et al ., 1994; Rojkovich & Gibson, 1998). Joint pain and stiffness are generally most severe in the earlier part of the day, with improvement as the day progresses in both RA and OA (Altman, 1990).…”

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Pain and quality of life among older people with rheumatoid arthritis and/or osteoarthritis: a literature review

Jakobsson

Hallberg

2002

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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“…Individuals with RA have been found to be at elevated risk for depressive symptoms [20][21][22][23][24] . While Katz and Yelin 25 reported that significantly more adults with RA were found to have depression than controls, Stenstrom 26 estimated depression in individuals with RA at 30%.…”

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Occupation as a mediator of depression in people with rheumatoid arthritis

MacKinnon

Noh

Miller

1998

Journal of Occupational Science

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In this study we investigate the association between rheumatoid arthritis and depression, and examine if the increase in depression among individuals with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) compared to individuals without RA, is attributable to poor ability to perform important daily occupations. The occupations of work, self care, leisure, rest and sleep were analysed, using regression analyses, to see which predicted depression. The participants were 143 adults with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and 142 without RA. A daily and hourly record of occupations in which they were engaged was completed for seven days. The amount of time individuals spent in these five occupations, their perceived occupational competence, the value they attached to the occupation and basic demographic information (age, gender, marital status and employment status) were included in the analysis along with their depression score. Occupational competence (time spent in occupation x perceived performance) in work, self care, leisure and sleep was a strong mediator of depression. Having competence in rest was not important nor were any of the demographic variables except employment status. Occupational value (time spent in occupation x perceived value) of the five occupations was not a mediator.

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Pain and functional limitations in individuals with rheumatoid arthritis

Cited by 25 publications

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Reconstructing Marital Closeness While Caring for a Spouse With Alzheimer’s

Reconstructing Marital Closeness While Caring for a Spouse With Alzheimer’s

Pain and quality of life among older people with rheumatoid arthritis and/or osteoarthritis: a literature review

Occupation as a mediator of depression in people with rheumatoid arthritis

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