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Fiziksel Tıp ve Rehabilitasyon Bilimleri Dergisi (elektronik), vol.23, no.2, pp.98-106, 2020 (Other Refereed National Journals)
ABS TRACT Objective: The aims were to evaluate the validity-reliability of the
Turkish spouse-version of the Illness Perception Questionnaire-Revised (IPQ-R);
to examine the role of spouses’ illness perceptions and psychological well-being
in the illness severity and depression of women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
Material and Methods: One-hundred and one married women diagnosed with
RA and their husbands were enrolled. Spouses’ beliefs about RA were assessed
by Turkish spouse-version of the IPQ-R. The data were collected using Visual
Analogue Scale-Pain, DAS-28, and the Health Assessment Questionnaire-Disability Index in patients; global life satisfaction by the Satisfaction with LifeScale in husbands; Beck Depression Inventory in all participants. Results: The
scale demonstrated satisfactory convergent validity, discriminate validity and reliability. Patients’ disability, depression, pain scores were correlated with IPQ-Rsubscales positively (p<0.05). Patients’disability, pain, disease activity,
depression levels were correlated with spouses’ depression scores positively and
with spouses’life satisfaction scores negatively (p<0.05). In multiple regression
analysis; consequences, emotional and timeline cyclical-subscales were found to
be influential variable on disability (p<0.05). Emotional representations-subscale,
spouses’depression and life satisfaction scores were found to be influential variable on patients’ depression (p<0.05). Conclusion: Turkish version of spouse
version of the IPQ-R could be a valuable instrument in the assessment of illness
perceptions in Turkish husbands of women with RA. Spouses’ pessimistic beliefs about RA and their poor psychological well-being were significantly related
to disability, pain severity and depression level of women with RA. Husbands’ illness perceptions about disease and psychological status should be taken into account in the treatment of women with RA.
Keywords: Rheumatoid arthritis; depression; illness perception;
life satisfaction; spouse