Objective Emerging research supports the role of chronic stress in chronic disease
development. The objective was to perform a scoping review mapping the field of research …

Aim To generate a theoretical model how patients experience their management of
rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in everyday life. Method An explorative design with the grounded …

Objective: To identify hand function problems and the reasons for choosing a specific finger
splint in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and swan neck deformities. Methods: A …

Aims. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) often report events that they believe may have
caused their disease. We attempted to characterize such causal events and the possible …

Background Sjögren's syndrome and the associated dryness can have multiple
consequences. The aim of the present qualitative study was to give an in‐depth account of …

Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, long-term, and non-life-threatening
disease. Individuals with RA face various daily pressures that include physical symptoms as …

Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are associated with
substantial disease burdens, including impaired quality of life, functional disability, and lost …

The aim of the present study was to identify patterns of background factors related to the
early RA patients' conceptions of the cause of the disease. Conceptions from a qualitative …

This chapter focuses on environmental, including lifestyle, facthe bias that can be introduced
if one twin with a certain disease is tors, and on when and how during disease development …

Nurses in the rheumatology clinic at New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases
realized a need to provide patients with rheumatoid arthritis with more healthcare …