Upswings in Cheerful Mood and Disease Activity in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
| Autor: | Hugo Carretero-Dios, Alejandro Escudero-Contreras, Pilar Font-Ugalde, Desireé Ruiz-Vilchez, Carlos J. Delgado-Domínguez, Eduardo Collantes-Estevez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male Clinical variables Emotions Happiness 050109 social psychology Disease Severity of Illness Index Arthritis Rheumatoid Disease activity 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences In patient Applied Psychology 030203 arthritis & rheumatology business.industry 05 social sciences Middle Aged medicine.disease Health psychology C-Reactive Protein Cross-Sectional Studies Mood Rheumatoid arthritis Trait Female business Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Behavioral Medicine. 23:606-610 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7558 1070-5503 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12529-016-9550-2 |
| Popis: | The influence of a cheerful mood on disease activity levels in rheumatoid arthritis is investigated in this cross-sectional study. State cheerfulness (i.e., how individuals feel at the time of the assessment) and trait cheerfulness (i.e., how individuals usually feel) were assessed at the same time as the clinical indicators of disease activity and just before measuring patient-reported disease activity with the Disease Activity Score-28 (DAS-28). State cheerfulness contributed significantly to the variance in the DAS-28 scores that was not accounted for by trait cheerfulness or demographic or clinical variables. Higher state cheerfulness was associated with lower values of self-reported disease activity and C-reactive protein. The patient-reported disease activity was not uniquely caused by the clinical indicators of disease, but it also depended on patients’ cheerful mood at the moment of assessment. The findings suggest interesting possibilities for the diagnosis and monitoring of disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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