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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




