Association of Changes in Hand Pain With BMI, Employment, and Mental Well-Being Over Four Years in Patients With Hand Osteoarthritis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We aimed to characterize patients with hand osteoarthritis (OA) with deteriorating or improving hand pain and to investigate patients achieving good clinical outcome after four years.

Methods

We used four-year annual Australian/Canadian Hand Osteoarthritis Index (AUSCAN) pain subscale (range 0-20) measurements from the Hand OSTeoArthritis in Secondary Care cohort (patients with hand OA). Pain changes were categorized as deterioration, stable, and improvement using the Minimal Clinical Important Improvement. Good clinical outcome was categorized using the Patient Acceptable Symptom State (PASS). Associations between baseline characteristics (patient and disease characteristics, coping styles, and illness perceptions) and outcomes were investigated using multinomial

SUBMITTER: van der Meulen C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12038222 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature