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01-08-2008 | Original Article

Adaptation to Early Knee Osteoarthritis: The Role of Risk, Resilience, and Disease Severity on Pain and Physical Functioning

Authors: Lisa Johnson Wright, Ph.D., Alex J. Zautra, Ph.D., Scott Going, Ph.D.

Published in: Annals of Behavioral Medicine | Issue 1/2008

Abstract

Background

Radiographic joint changes are used to diagnose osteoarthritis; however, they alone do not adequately predict who experiences symptoms.

Purpose

To examine psychological risk and resilience factors in combination with an objective indicator of disease severity (knee X-rays) to determine what factors best account for pain and physical functioning in an early knee osteoarthritis (KOA) population.

Methods

Structural equation modeling was used to analyze data from 275 men and women with early KOA.

Results

Structural equation modeling yielded a fair to good fit of the data, suggesting that both risk and resilience were important in predicting pain and physical functioning over and above disease severity in the expected directions. Resilience’s effect on pain was mediated through self-efficacy, suggesting that higher self-efficacy was linked to lower pain and better physical functioning.

Conclusions

Results provide an integrative model of adjustment to early KOA and may be important to the prevention of disability in this population.

It was determined that the fit of the CFA model was worsened with the CES-D positive affect subscale in the model and was ultimately omitted. The CES-D negative affect subscale, on the other hand, improved the fit of the CFA model over and above the model fit with the full CES-D measure included. Therefore, this subscale was utilized in this study within the risk factor. No other variations of the measurement model were tested.

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Title: Adaptation to Early Knee Osteoarthritis: The Role of Risk, Resilience, and Disease Severity on Pain and Physical Functioning
Authors: Lisa Johnson Wright, Ph.D.
Alex J. Zautra, Ph.D.
Scott Going, Ph.D.
Publication date: 01-08-2008
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Annals of Behavioral Medicine / Issue 1/2008
Print ISSN: 0883-6612
Electronic ISSN: 1532-4796
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12160-008-9048-5

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Adaptation to Early Knee Osteoarthritis: The Role of Risk, Resilience, and Disease Severity on Pain and Physical Functioning

Abstract

Background

Purpose

Methods

Results

Conclusions

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Background

Purpose

Methods

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