Arthritis Care & Research
Official Journal of the Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals
Vol. 11, No. 5, October 1998
EDITORIAL
309 The Arthritis Foundation 1948-1998: 50 Years of Arthritis
Care and Research
Leigh F. Callahan and Debra R. Lappin
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
315 The Economic Cost of Musculoskeletal Disorders in Canada
Peter C. Coyte, Carl V. Asche, Ruth Croxford, and Ben Chan
326 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
335 Modeling Physical Dependence in Arthritis: The Relative
Contribution of Specific Disabilities and Environmental Factors
Elizabeth M. Badley, Linda M. Rothman, and P. Peter Wang
346 Predictors of Functional Disability in Patients with
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Margo B. Holm, John C. Rogers, and C. Kent Kwoh
356 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
375 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
382 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
391 Substance Use Among Adolescents with Juvenile Rheumatoid
Arthritis
Alisa A. Nash, Maria T. Britto, Daniel J. Lovell, Murray H. Passo,
and Susan L. Rosenthal
397 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
405 A Comparison of Three Types of Neck Support in Fibromyalgia
Patients
Nancy Ambrogio, Joanne Cuttiford, Sydney Lineker, and Linda Li
411 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
419 Psychological Factors in the Prediction of Lyme Disease
Course
Sanford P. Solomon, Barbara S. Weinschel, Eileen Hilton, Simcha Pollack,
and Elizabeth Grolnick
427 ANNOUNCEMENTS
