ArticleHealth and quality of life outcomes2015
Relationship between optimism and quality of life in patients with two chronic rheumatic diseases: axial spondyloarthritis and chronic low back pain: a cross sectional study of 288 patients.
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- Changes of patient-reported outcomes and protein fingerprint biomarkers after exercise therapy for axial spondyloarthritis.Clinical rheumatology · 2019Article
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- The relationship between demographic- and disease-related variables and health-related quality of life in patients with axial spondyloarthritis.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2017Article
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- Optimism and pessimism in the general population: Psychometric properties of the Life Orientation Test (LOT-R).International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
- The Influence of Internalized Homophobia on Health-Related Quality of Life and Life Satisfaction Among Gay and Bisexual Men in China.American journal of men's healthArticle
- Affectivity as mediator of the relation between optimism and quality of life in men who have sex with men with HIV.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
backgroundAxial Spondyloarthritis (AxSpA) and chronic low back pain are rheumatic diseases that impact patients' health-related quality of life (HRQoL). In other chronic conditions, HRQoL was positively associated with dispositional optimism, a personality trait. The objective was to explore the relationship between optimism and HRQoL in these two diseases.
methodA cross-sectional study was performed in 2 tertiary care hospitals and 2 private practices in France. Patients had definite AxSpA or chronic low back pain according to the rheumatologist. A generic HRQoL questionnaire (Short Form, SF-12) with physical and mental composite scores (PCS and MCS respectively) and an optimism questionnaire (the Life Orientation Test-revised, LOT-R) were collected. Analyses included non-parametric correlations and multiple regression analyses to study the effect of optimism on PCS and MCS.
resultsIn all, 288 (199 AxSpA and 89 low back pain) patients were included: mean age, 47.3 ± 11.9 years, 48.6 % were males. Pain levels (0-10) were 4.5 ± 2.4 and 4.3 ± 2.4 in AxSpA and LOW BACK PAIN patients, respectively. HRQoL was similarly altered in both diseases, for both physical and mental composite scores (mean PCS: 43.7 ± 8.2 vs. 41.9 ± 7.1; mean MCS: 45.9 ± 7.8 vs. 46.7 ± 8.1 for AxSpA and low back pain respectively). Optimism was moderate and similar in both populations. Optimism was positively correlated to MCS in both diseases (rho = 0.54 and 0.58, respectively, both p <0.01) and these relations persisted in multivariate analyses (beta = 1.03 and 1.40, both p <0.0001).
conclusionsOptimism was similar in these 2 chronic diseases and was an explanatory factor of the mental component of HRQoL, but not physical HRQoL. Physical HRQoL may reflect more the disease process than character traits.
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