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Measuring the positive psychological well-being of people with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional validation of the subjective vitality scale

Overview of attention for article published in Arthritis Research & Therapy, November 2015
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Title
Measuring the positive psychological well-being of people with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional validation of the subjective vitality scale
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Arthritis Research & Therapy, November 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13075-015-0827-7
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Peter C. Rouse, Jet J. J. C. S. Veldhuijzen Van Zanten, Nikos Ntoumanis, George S. Metsios, Chen-an Yu, George D. Kitas, Joan L. Duda

Abstract

People with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) frequently suffer from compromised physical and psychological health, however, little is known about positive indicators of health, due to a lack of validated outcome measures. This study aims to validate a clinically relevant outcome measure of positive psychological well-being for people with RA. The first study examined the reliability and factorial validity of the Subjective Vitality Scale (SVS), whilst study 2 tested the instruments convergent validity. In study 1, National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society members (N = 333; M age = 59.82 years SD = 11.00) completed a postal questionnaire. For study 2, participants (N = 106; M age = 56 years, SD = 12 years) were those recruited to a randomized control trial comparing two physical activity interventions who completed a range of health-related questionnaires. The SVS had a high level of internal consistency (α = .93, Rho = .92). Confirmatory factor analysis supported the uni-dimensional factor structure of the questionnaire among RA patients [χ = 1327 (10), CFI = 1.0, SRMSR = .01 and RMSEA = .00 (.00 - .08)]. Support for the scales convergent validity was revealed by significant (p < .05) relationships, in expected directions, with health related quality of life (r = .59), physical function (r = .58), feelings of fatigue (r = -.70), anxiety (r = -.57) and depression (r = -.73). Results from two studies have provided support for the internal consistency, factorial structure and convergent validity of the Subjective Vitality Scale. Researchers and healthcare providers may employ this clinically relevant, freely available and brief assessment with the confidence that it is a valid and reliable measure of positive psychological well-being for RA patients. ClinicalTrials.gov ISRCTN04121489 . Registered 5 September 2012.

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Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Unknown 166 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 23 14%
Student > Bachelor 19 11%
Researcher 16 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 15 9%
Other 21 13%
Unknown 57 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 30 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 22 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 20 12%
Sports and Recreations 12 7%
Unspecified 5 3%
Other 16 10%
Unknown 62 37%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. 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 August 2016.
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#3,201,981
of 25,373,627 outputs
Outputs from Arthritis Research & Therapy
#656
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#43,551
of 296,925 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Arthritis Research & Therapy
#29
of 96 outputs
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