Arthritis Care & Research

Vol. 11, No. 4, August 1998

225 Qualitative Research: Contributions to Scientific Inquiry and Patient Care
Laura Robbins

228 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

234 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

243 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

253 Using Focus Groups to Understand Arthritis Patients’ Perceptions about Unconventional Therapy
Jaya K. Rao, Rhonda Arick, Kim Mihaliak, and Morris Weinberger

261 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

271 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 

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

291 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

298 Predictors of Rate of Return to Work After Surgery for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Loreto Carmona, Julia Faucett, Paul D. Blanc, and Edward Yelin

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

307 ANNOUNCEMENTS