title: [Anxiety level and its determinants in rheumatoid arthritis patients].
abstract: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic disease with many somatic, psychological and social consequences. Somatic consequences are connected mainly with increasing levels of negative emotions such as depression, anxiety and a tendency to react with anger to many daily life situations. Additionally, loss of hope has been reported as another effect of rheumatoid arthritis. The goal of the study was to describe anxiety levels and its determinants in RA patients. The study was carried out on 31 RA patients, 22 (71%) of whom were females and 9 (29%) of whom were males. The respondents were assessed with a set of questionnaires such as Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Multidimensional Health Locus of Control Scale (MHLC), The Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS) and Eysenck's Personality Questionnaire - Revised (EPQ-R). We have found the relationship between anxiety as (1) a state and external locus of control - powerful others (tau-b = 0.23, p = 0.09), task - oriented style of coping (tau-b = -0.34, p = 0.01), emotion-oriented style of coping (tau-b = 0.33, p = 0.02) and neuroticism levels (tau-b = 0.29, p = 0.03) and (2) anxiety as a trait and external locus of control - powerful others (tau-b = 0.40, p = 0.01), task - oriented style of coping (tau-b = 0.36, p = 0.01), emotion-oriented style of coping (tau-b = 0.33, p = 0.02) and neuroticism levels (tau-b = 0.47, p = 0,01).
authors.affiliation: Zakład Psychologii Klinicznej, Uniwersytet Medyczny im. Karola Marcinkowskiego w Poznaniu. ewamojs@ump.edu.pl
authors.forename: Ewa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mojs
authors.forename: Michał
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ziarko
authors.forename: Łukasz
authors.initials: Ł
authors.lastname: Kaczmarek
authors.forename: Włodzimierz
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Samborski
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000523:psychology*; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D011044:Poland; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012307:Risk Factors; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires