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The prognostic value of pain catastrophizing in health-related quality of life judgments after Total knee arthroplasty

Overview of attention for article published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, June 2018
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Title
The prognostic value of pain catastrophizing in health-related quality of life judgments after Total knee arthroplasty
Published in
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, June 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12955-018-0955-2
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Esther Yakobov, William Stanish, Michael Tanzer, Michael Dunbar, Glen Richardson, Michael J. L. Sullivan

Abstract

Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is a highly effective procedure that yields reductions in pain and disability associated with end stage osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. Quality of life instruments are frequently used to gauge the outcomes of total knee arthroplasty (TKA). However, research suggests that post-TKA reductions in symptom severity may not be the sole predictors of quality of life post-TKA. The primary objective of the present study was to examine the prognostic value of catastrophic thinking in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) judgments in patients with severe OA after TKA. In this study we used a prospective cohort design to examine the value of pain catastrophizing in predicting HRQoL 1 year after TKA. Participants with advanced OA of the knee who were scheduled for TKA were recruited at one of three hospitals in Canada. The study sample consisted of 116 individuals (71 women, 45 men) who completed study questionnaires at their pre-surgical evaluation and 1 year after surgery. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to assess the unique contribution of pre-surgical pain catastrophizing to the prediction of post-surgical HRQoL judgments. The results of the hierarchical regression equation revealed that the overall model was significant, F (9,106) = 8.3, p < 001, and accounted for 36.4% of the variance in the prediction of post-surgical physical component score of HRQoL. Pain catastrophizing was entered in the last step of the equation and contributed significant unique variance (β = -.35, p < .001) to the prediction of post-surgical physical component score of HRQoL above and beyond the variance accounted for by demographic variables, co-morbid health conditions, baseline HRQoL, and post-surgical reductions in pain, joint stiffness and physical disability. The current findings highlight the importance of pre-surgical catastrophic cognitions in influencing HRQoL judgments after TKA. The findings suggest that psychosocial interventions designed to reduce pain catastrophizing before TKA might contribute to better quality of life outcomes following surgery.

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Unknown 98 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 13%
Researcher 10 10%
Student > Bachelor 9 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 7%
Student > Postgraduate 6 6%
Other 19 19%
Unknown 34 35%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 21 21%
Medicine and Dentistry 20 20%
Psychology 13 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 2%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 1%
Other 5 5%
Unknown 36 37%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 June 2018.
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#3,143,114
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#260
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#65,031
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Outputs of similar age from Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
#17
of 69 outputs
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