Alexithymia and Quality of Life in Adult Patients with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
| العنوان: | Alexithymia and Quality of Life in Adult Patients with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis |
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| المؤلفون: | M.B. Dzhus |
| المصدر: | Archive of Clinical Medicine; Vol. 24 No. 1 (2018) Архів клінічної медицини; Том 24 № 1 (2018) |
| بيانات النشر: | Ivano-Frankivsk National Medical University, 2018. |
| سنة النشر: | 2018 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Ankylosing spondylitis, medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Chronic pain, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Affect (psychology), Mental health, Toronto Alexithymia Scale, Quality of life, Alexithymia, quality of life, Internal medicine, medicine, juvenile idiopathic arthritis, alexithymia, business, Pathological, adult age |
| الوصف: | Patients with chronic pain disturb not only quality of life (QL) but also develop difficulties in describing their feelings. Prolonged pain, stress, pathological conditions and related emotions can alter the perceived sensation of pain. The aim of our study was to study the QL and the level of alexithymia in adult patients with different types of juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA).Materials and methods. 173 young people aged 18-40 years old were examined: 118 adult patients with different ILAR variants of JIA, 30 patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and 25 healthy young people. The QL was assessed using the Short-Form-36 questionnaire (SF36) with further assessing the level of alexithymia by Toronto alexithymia scale (TAS-20).Results. The analysis of QL shows that PCS (44.8±9.9) was significantly lower (p=0.001) in patients with JIA than in healthy subjects (55.7±6.9) of the corresponding age and sex, but did not differ from patients with AS (42.3±7.5). Patients with JIA had lower physical (p=0.001), role functioning (p=0.001) and bodily pain (p=0.001) compared with healthy, with no difference from patients with AS. In the distribution of patients with JIA in groups by the level of alexithymia, differences in QL were not revealed by MCS or PCS and scales related with them. The relationship analysis between the alexithymia and QL in patients with JIA shows, that elevated and high levels of alexithymia were related with low levels of MCS (p |
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| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2312-7007 2414-9853 |
| DOI: | 10.21802/acm.2018.1 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::8530ac317794785920aea80232e0d16aTest https://ifnmujournal.com/acm/article/view/887Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....8530ac317794785920aea80232e0d16a |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 23127007 24149853 |
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| DOI: | 10.21802/acm.2018.1 |