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Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Behavioral Medicine 4/2006

01-08-2006

Uncertainty of Illness Relationships with Mental Health and Coping Processes in Fibromyalgia Patients

Auteurs: John W. Reich, Lisa M. Johnson, Alex J. Zautra, Mary C. Davis

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Behavioral Medicine | Uitgave 4/2006

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Abstract

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a chronic musculoskeletal pain condition poorly understood in terms of etiology and treatment by both physicians and patients. This condition of “uncertainty of illness” was examined as a variable involved in the adjustment of FMS patients, relating it to their depression, anxiety, affect, and coping styles. Fifty-one community-residing FMS patients provided self-report information on subsets of adjustment variables. Both cross-sectional and more dynamic longitudinal analyses showed that illness uncertainty was significantly associated with anxiety, negative affect, and avoidant and passive coping. Its positive relationship with depression was eliminated when a control variable, pain helplessness, was included as a covariate. Longitudinally, illness uncertainty interacted with interpersonally stressful daily events in predicting reports of reduced positive affect, suggesting that illness uncertainty acts as a risk factor for affective disturbances during stressful times. Implications of these results for therapeutic interventions are discussed.
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The order of the partialling was chosen to test specifically the role of illness uncertainty, so pain helplessness was treated as a covariate. To examine the reverse possibility, the order was reversed, examining the partial correlations of pain helplessness controlling for illness uncertainty. In these analyses, one set for the affect variables and one set for the coping variables, there were no changes in the significance levels for pain helplessness with illness uncertainty partialled out. This suggests that, with the exception of the depression measure, the variables operated more or less independently of each other in their effects.
 
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The Ns in these tables vary slightly due to occasional and unsystematic missing data when all variables are correlated with all other variables as in Table I.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Uncertainty of Illness Relationships with Mental Health and Coping Processes in Fibromyalgia Patients
Auteurs
John W. Reich
Lisa M. Johnson
Alex J. Zautra
Mary C. Davis
Publicatiedatum
01-08-2006
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Behavioral Medicine / Uitgave 4/2006
Print ISSN: 0160-7715
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3521
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-006-9054-7

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