Psychological well-being in systemic sclerosis patients

Background This study aimed to identify the clinical variables associated with' psychological well-being in systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients. Methods 124 SSc patients were enrolled at the Careggi University Hospital (Florence, Italy). The Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview, the Diag...

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Published inJournal of psychosomatic research Vol. 157; p. 110837
Main Authors Romanazzo, S., Mansueto, G., Guiducci, S., Matucci-Cerinic, M., Cosci, F.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Elsevier Inc 01.06.2022
Elsevier Science Ltd
Subjects
Clinical variables
Disability
Interviews
Mental disorders
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Pain
Patients
Peace
Psychiatric/Mental Health
Psychological problems
Psychological well being
Purpose in life
Questionnaires
Scleroderma
Somatization
Suffering
Systemic sclerosis
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ISSN0022-3999
1879-1360
DOI10.1016/j.jpsychores.2022.110837

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Summary:Background This study aimed to identify the clinical variables associated with' psychological well-being in systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients. Methods 124 SSc patients were enrolled at the Careggi University Hospital (Florence, Italy). The Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview, the Diagnostic Criteria for Psychosomatic Research-Revised Semi-Structured Interview, the World Health Organization-Five Weil-Being Index (WHO-5), the Psychological Weil-Being Questionnaire (PWB), the Mental Pain Questionnaire (MPQ), the Symptom Questionnaire (SQ), the Symptom Checklist-90-R, the Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index, and the Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure (iPRISM) were administered. Subjects were stratified into "low" or "high" psychological well-being (based on WHO-5) with the aim to compare the two groups concerning the above variables. Results Regression model showed that higher well-being was associated with the absence of psychiatric disorders, higher PWB purpose in life, iPRISM feeling peace scores, and with lower iPRISM suffering, iPRISM physical pain, MPQ mental pain, SQ depression, SQ somatization, SCL-90 obsessive-compulsive scores (R2 = 0.58). Conclusions SSc patients might benefit for empowering psychological well-being both reducing suffering and psychological symptoms and increasing purposes in life and peace feelings.
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ISSN:0022-3999
1879-1360
DOI:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2022.110837