title: [Psychologic stress and its predictors in rheumatoid arthritis].
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.
authors.affiliation: Zakład Dydaktyki i Informacji Instytutu Reumatologii ul. Spartańska 1, 02-637 Warszawa.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jedryka-Góral
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*