Veitiene Dalia, Tamulaitiene Marija
Centre of Gerontology and Rehabilitation, Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Vilnius University, Kalvariju 323, Vilnius, Lithuania.
J Rehabil Med. 2005 Jan;37(1):58-60. doi: 10.1080/16501970410032669.
To determine and compare self-management methods used for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis and to determine which methods patients consider most effective.
Patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis were questioned about self-management methods and asked to indicate the most effective ones.
Twenty-seven patients with osteoarthritis and 26 with rheumatoid arthritis were interviewed. Exercise, joint protection, assistive devices and heat were the methods most commonly used. More patients with osteoarthritis than with rheumatoid arthritis used assistive devices (p=0.042). Exercise, assistive devices and heat were considered the most effective self-management methods. More patients with osteoarthritis than with rheumatoid arthritis considered assistive devices to be the most effective method (p=0.016).
More patients with osteoarthritis than with rheumatoid arthritis used and indicated assistive devices as the most effective self-management method. Similar numbers of patients in both groups used other self-management methods.
确定并比较用于骨关节炎和类风湿关节炎的自我管理方法,并确定患者认为哪些方法最有效。
对骨关节炎和类风湿关节炎患者询问自我管理方法,并要求指出最有效的方法。
采访了27例骨关节炎患者和26例类风湿关节炎患者。运动、关节保护、辅助器具和热敷是最常用的方法。使用辅助器具的骨关节炎患者比类风湿关节炎患者更多(p=0.042)。运动、辅助器具和热敷被认为是最有效的自我管理方法。认为辅助器具是最有效方法的骨关节炎患者比类风湿关节炎患者更多(p=0.016)。
使用并指出辅助器具是最有效自我管理方法的骨关节炎患者比类风湿关节炎患者更多。两组中使用其他自我管理方法的患者数量相似。