Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Psychological correlates of self-reported functional limitation in patients with ankylosing spondylitis. | Available online http content 11 6 R182 Research article Psychological correlates of self-reported functional limitation in patients with ankylosing spondylitis Tamar F Brionez1 Shervin Assassi1 John D Reveille1 Thomas J Learch2 Laura Diekman1 Michael M Ward3 John C Davis Jr4 Michael H Weisman2 and Perry Nicassio5 Department of Medicine Division of Rheumatology University of Texas-Houston 6431 Fannin Houston Texas 77030 USA 2Department of Medicine Division of Rheumatology Cedars-Sinai Medical Center 8700 Beverly Blvd. Los Angeles California 90048 USA 3Department of Medicine Division of Rheumatology NIAMS-NIH 1 AIMS Circle Bethesda Maryland 20892 USA 4Department of Medicine Division of Rheumatology University of California-San Francisco 505 Parnassus Avenue San Francisco California 941 22 USA 5Department of Psychiatry University of California-Los Angeles 300 Medical Plaza Los Angeles California 90095 USA Contributed equally Corresponding author Shervin Assassi Received 5 Aug 2009 Revisions requested 21 Sep 2009 Revisions received 29 Oct 2009 Accepted 7 Dec 2009 Published 7 Dec 2009 Arthritis Research Therapy 2009 11 R182 doi 86 ar2874 This article is online at http content 11 6 R182 2009 Brionez et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction Functional status is an integral component of health-related quality of life in patients with ankylosing spondylitis AS . The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of psychological variables in self-reported functional limitation in patients with AS while controlling for demographic and medical variables. Methods 294 AS patients meeting modified New York .
