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Volume 11, No. 3 - June 1998

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Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology

COMMENTARY

Arthritis Self-Efficacy Scales Measure Self-Efficacy

Kate Lorig and Halsted Holman 155

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Effect of Satisfaction with One’s Abilities on Positive and Negative Affect Among Individuals with Recently Diagnosed Rheumatoid Arthritis

Susan J. Blalock, Maria Orlando, Elizabeth J. Mutran, Robert F. DeVellis, and Brenda M. DeVellis 158

Disease and Family Contributors to Adaptation in Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis and Juvenile Diabetes

Robert G. Frank, Kristofer J. Hagglund, Laura H. Schopp, Julian F. Thayer, Angela Z. Vieth, James T. Cassidy, David E. Goldstein, Niels C. Beck, Daniel L. Clay, John E. Hewett, Jane C. Johnson, John M. Chaney, and Javad H. Kashani 166

Arthritis Health Service Utilization Among the Elderly: The Role of Urban-Rural Residence and Other Utilization Factors

Kenneth G. Saag, Bradley N. Doebbeling, James E. Rohrer, Sheela Kolluri, Theresa A. Mitchell, and Robert B. Wallace 177

Interdisciplinary Treatment for Fibromyalgia Syndrome: Clinical and Statistical Significance

Dennis C. Turk, Akiko Okifuji, J. David Sinclair, and Terence W. Starz 186

Biofeedback/Relaxation Training and Exercise Interventions for Fibromyalgia: A Prospective Trial

Susan P. Buckelew, Robert Conway, Jerry Parker, William E. Deuser, Joan Jennings, Thomas E. Witty, John E. Hewett, Marian Minor, Jane C. Johnson, Lynn Van Male, Matthew J. McIntosh, Margaret Nigh, and Donald R. Kay 196

Protocol for Verifying Expertise in Location Fibromyalgia Tender Points

Matthew J. McIntosh, John E. Hewett, Susan P. Buckelew, Robert R. Conway, and Lynn A. Rossy 210

A Comparison of the Futuro Wrist Orthosis with a Synthetic ThermoLyn Orthosis: Utility and Clinical Effectiveness

Gerard J. Tijhuis, Theodora P. M. Vliet Vlieland, Aeilko H. Zwinderman, and Johanna M. W. Hazes 217

ANNOUNCEMENTS 223