Effect of a Positive Psychological Intervention on Pain and Functional Difficulty Among Adults With Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Positive psychological interventions for improving health have received increasing attention recently. Evidence on the impact of such interventions on pain, and racial disparities in pain, is limited.

Objective

To assess the effects of a positive psychological intervention on pain and functional difficulty in veterans with knee osteoarthritis.

Design, setting, and participants

The Staying Positive With Arthritis Study is a large, double-blinded randomized clinical trial powered to detect race differences in self-reported pain in response to a positive psychological intervention compared with a neutral control intervention. Data were collected from 2 urban Veterans Affairs medical centers. Participants included non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic African Ame

SUBMITTER: Hausmann LRM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324470 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature