Resilience and pain catastrophizing among patients with total knee arthroplasty: a cohort study to examine psychological constructs as predictors of post-operative outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients' psychological health may influence recovery and functional outcomes after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Pain catastrophizing, known to be associated with poor function following TKA, encompasses rumination, magnification, and helplessness that patients feel toward their pain. Resilience, however, is an individual's ability to adapt to adversity and may be an important psychological construct that supersedes the relationship between pain catastrophizing and recovery. In this study we sought to identify whether pre-operative resilience is predictive of 3-month postoperative outcomes after adjusting for pain catastrophizing and other covariates.

Methods

Patients undergoing TKA between January 2019 and November 2019 were included in this longitudinal cohort

SUBMITTER: Nwankwo VC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8088639 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature