What Are the Underlying Mental Health Constructs Associated With Level of Capability in People with Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis?

CONCLUSION: This study simplifies the multitude of mental health assessments into two underlying factors: cognition (pain coping) and feelings (mood). When considered together, the association between capability and pain coping was dominant, signaling the importance of a mental health assessment in orthopaedic care to go beyond focusing on unhelpful feelings and mood (assessment of depression and anxiety) alone to include measures of pain coping, such as the Pain Catastrophizing Scale or Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia, both of which have been used extensively in patients with musculoskeletal conditions.LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, prognostic study.PMID:38393957 | DOI:10.1097/CORR.0000000000003003

Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - February 23, 2024 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Prakash Jayakumar Tom J Crijns Will Misciagna Olivia Manickas-Hill Morven Malay William Jiranek Richard C Mather Trevor A Lentz Source Type: research