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Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology
EDITORIAL
The Arthritis Foundation 1948-1998: 50 Years of Arthritis Care and Research
Leigh F. Callahan and Debra R. Lappin 309
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
The Economic Cost of Musculoskeletal Disorders in Canada
Peter C. Coyte, Carl V. Asche, Ruth Croxford, and Ben Chan 315
The Effects of Social Support and Education on Health Care Costs after Three Years
Terry A. Cronan, Meghan Hay, Erik Groessl, Silvia Bigatti, Ruth Gallagher, and Mitsuo Tomita 326
Modeling Physical Dependence in Arthritis: The Relative Contribution of Specific Disabilities and Environmental Factors
Elizabeth M. Badley, Linda M. Rothman, and P. Peter Wang 335
Predictors of Functional Disability in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
Margo B. Holm, John C. Rogers, and C. Kent Kwoh 346
The Social Environment and Health in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Marital Quality Predicts Individual Variability in Pain Severity
Millard Waltz, Walter Kriegel, and Paul van’t Pad Bosch 356
A Survey of United States Rheumatologists Concerning Effectiveness of Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs and Prednisone in the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis
Frederick Wolfe, Daniel A. Albert, and Theodore Pincus 375
Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of an Argentine Spanish Version of the Stanford Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire
Marta B. Moroldo, Carmen De Cunto, Osvaldo Hübscher, Diana Liberatore, Rosa Palermo, Ricardo Russo, and Edward H. Giannini 382
Substance Use Among Adolescents with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
Alisa A. Nash, Maria T. Britto, Daniel J. Lovell, Murray H. Passo, and Susan L. Rosenthal 391
Differential Responses by Psychosocial Subgroups of Fibromyalgia Syndrome Patients to an Interdisciplinary Treatment
Dennis C. Turk, Akiko Okifuji, J. David Sinclair, and Terence W. Starz 397
A Comparison of Three Types of Neck Support in Fibromyalgia Patients
Nancy Ambrogio, Joanne Cuttiford, Sydney Lineker, and Linda Li 405
Use of Alternative Therapies by Patients with Rheumatic Disease in Guadalajara, Mexico: Prevalence, Beliefs, and Expectations
Cesar Ramos-Remus, Jorge I. Gamez-Nava, Laura Gonzalez-Lopez, Kenneth J. Skeith, Ana V. Perla-Navarro, Federico Galvan-Villegas, and Maria E. Suarez-Almazor 411
Psychological Factors in the Prediction of Lyme Disease Course
Sanford P. Solomon, Barbara S. Weinschel, Eileen Hilton, Simcha Pollack, and Elizabeth Grolnick 419




