Rheumatoid Arthritis Summary

The article titled stress management for patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis. This article is about a 40 year old female who suffers with Rheumatoid Arthritis 18 months ago. Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease and autoimmune disorder. It mainly affects the small joints located in your feet and hands. It does not cause damage like osteoarthritis instead; rheumatoid arthritis attacks the lining of the joints. This causes inflammation and pain that can be described as unbearable. It eventually ends in bone erosion and deformity of the joints. This can happen at any age but mainly in women after the age of 40.

She has been following up with her nurse practitioner at a local rheumatology clinic since her diagnosis and currently

The validity assessment performed externally, health was measured by analyzing a significant link between a psychosocial and organizational work factors -related variable and any variable related to the health.

When reliability and validity were measured together, the four questionnaires most used in the nurse population were Demand Control Questionnaire taken from the Job Content Questionnaire and the questionnaire taken from Effort-Reward Imbalance model, both of which are designed for any occupation (Bonneterre et al., 2008 pg.211).

In the conclusion of this study, a large number of surveys, both basic and particular to the nursing profession, have been utilized to quantify psychosocial and organizational work elements for nurses. There is no one survey that can claim to fulfill the majority of the suggestions as far as internal validity, as expressed in the basic audit of psychosocial risk measures in this populace. This tool may be continued to be used for other areas in advance nursing because it contained four questionnaires that were frequently used in the nurse