Damiano Currado, Alice Biaggi, Andrea Pilato, Annalisa Marino, Piero Ruscitti, Ilenia Pantano, Stefano Di Donato, Marta Vomero, Onorina Berardicurti, Viktoriya Pavlych, Claudio Di Vico, Francesco Caso, Luisa Costa, Marco Tasso, Federica Camarda, Francesca Misceo, Francesco De Vincenzo, Addolorata Corrado, Francesco Paolo Cantatore, Federico Perosa, Giuliana Guggino, Raffaele Scarpa, Paola Cipriani, Francesco Ciccia, Roberto Giacomelli, Luca Navarini
OBJECTIVES: Psychosocial factors are recognised as important determinants of pain experience in patients with inflammatory arthritides. Among them, pain catastrophising, a maladaptive cognitive style, observed in patients with anxiety and depressive disorders, garnered specific attention. Here, we evaluated pain catastrophising (PC) and its related domains (Rumination, Magnification, and Helplessness), in psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and axial spondyloarhtiritis (axSpA) participants, to assess its impact on disease activity...
April 13, 2023: Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology