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Volume 11, No. 4 - August 1998

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Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology

EDITORIAL

Qualitative Research: Contributions to Scientific Inquiry and Patient Care

Laura Robbins 225

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

One-Year Followup of Patients with Osteoarthritis of the Knee Who Participated in a Program of Supervised Fitness Walking and Supportive Patient Education

Theresa Sullivan, John P. Allegrante, Margaret G. E. Peterson, Pamela A. Kovar, and C. Ronald MacKenzie 228

Correlates of Changes in Mood Following a Mood Induction in Osteoarthritis Patients

Robert F. DeVellis, Karen Carl, Brenda M. DeVellis, Susan J. Blalock, and Carol Carswell Patterson 234

Coping with Pain in the Hip or Knee in Relation to Physical Disability in Community-Living Elderly People

M. Hopman-Rock, F. W. Kraaimaat, E. Odding, and J. W. J. Bijlsma 243

Using Focus Groups to Understand Arthritis Patients’ Perceptions about Unconventional Therapy

Jaya K. Rao, Rhonda Arick, Kim Mihaliak, and Morris Weinberger 253

The Experience of Knee Arthritis in Athletic Young and Middle-Aged Adults: An Heuristic Study

Julie J. Keysor, Joyce W. Sparling, and Cheryl Riegger-Krugh 261

An Examination of Individual Differences in the Relationship Between Interpersonal Stress and Disease Activity Among Women with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Alex J. Zautra, Jeanne M. Hoffman, Kathleen S. Matt, David Yocum, Phillip T. Potter, William Lesley Castro, and Sanford Roth  271

What Do Self-Administered Joint Counts Tell Us About Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis?

Agustín Escalante 280

Effects of Epidural Steroids on Pain Due to Lumbar Spinal Stenosis or Herniated Disks: A Prospective Study

Charles Rivest, Jeffrey N. Katz, F. Michael Ferrante, and Robert N. Jamison 291

Predictors of Rate of Return to Work After Surgery for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Loreto Carmona, Julia Faucett, Paul D. Blanc, and Edward Yelin 298

LETTER

Impact of Disease on the Family of a Young Knee Arthritis Patient: Comment on the Article by Keysor et al

Mary Keysor 306

ANNOUNCEMENTS 307