BEHAVIORAL TREATMENTS FOR RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 这项研究是一项随机对照试验，测试认知行为疗法(CBT)或基于放松反应的干预--太极--是否会影响类风湿关节炎患者的心理适应指标(疾病信念、自我效能、应对、社会支持)、情绪障碍、睡眠质量、促炎细胞因子(IL-1、IL-6、肿瘤坏死因子)以及类风湿性关节炎的严重程度、疾病活动性、累积的疾病损害和健康功能。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. This study is a randomized controlled trial testing whether cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) or a relaxation response based intervention, Tai Chi Chih, will affect measures of psychologiacl adaptation (illness beliefs, self-efficacy, coping, social support), mood disturbance, sleep quality, pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-1, IL-6, TNF), and RA disease severity, disease activity, accumulated disease damage, health functioning in persons with Rheumatoid arthritis.