[Psychologic stress and its predictors in rheumatoid arthritis].

Anna Jedryka-Góral

Zakład Dydaktyki i Informacji Instytutu Reumatologii ul. Spartańska 1, 02-637 Warszawa.

Journal Article: Annales Academiae Medicae Stetinensis 01/2010; 56 Suppl 1:83-5.

Abstract

This article presents the current conceptualization of stress with particular attention focused on psychologic stress in rheumatic diseases: its sources, pathophysiology, and techniques of coping. Predictors, i.e., factors heralding psychologic stress in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are discussed in relation to the mechanism of the "vicious circle" as well as to the socio-economic and medico-psychologic context in which the patient functions. The author's results from a comparative Polish-German study on predictors of psychologic stress in RA patients are provided.

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Keywords

comparative Polish-German study
 
current conceptualization
 
factors heralding psychologic stress
 
medico-psychologic context
 
pathophysiology
 
patient functions
 
predictors
 
psychologic stress
 
RA
 
RA patients
 
rheumatic diseases
 
rheumatoid arthritis
 
vicious circle