PAIN ANXIETY, AFFECT, COPING AND RESILIENCE AMONG RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS PATIENTS

Abstract

"The Rheumatoid-arthritis considered as a chronic disease, which affects approximately 21 million individuals worldwide (UN World Population Database, 2004 revision). The rheumatoid-arthritis affects 15% of Indian population, such as over 180 million people suffers by rheumatoid-arthritis in India. In the present study, total sample of 122 male and female rheumatoid arthritis patients (Mean age = 55) were taken from one RA specialized hospital in Pune city (India). Incidental and snow-ball sampling methods were used for data collection. The Brief Resilience Scale (Smith et al., 2008), Brief Coping Inventory (Carver et al., 1987), PANAS-SF (Watson & Tellegen, 1988), and Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale (PASS-20) (McCracken & Dingra, 2002) were used. Age found positively correlated with duration of suffering (r = .383, P < .01), active coping found positively correlated (r = .224, P < .01) with resilience and positive affect was found positively correlated with resilience (r =. 94, P < .01), and pain anxiety found positively correlated with negative affect (r = .234, P < .01). In regression, results indicated that religious coping and negative affect were found jointly 19% predictor of approach coping, and physiological anxiety emerged as only predictor of negative affect which was explaining 4.8% of variance. The results are discussed in detail manner with supporting researcher in complete paper of present study."