TY - JOUR
T1 - Couple-Oriented Education and Support Intervention for Osteoarthritis
T2 - Effects on Spouses' Support and Responses to Patient Pain
AU - Martire, Lynn M.
AU - Schulz, Richard
AU - Keefe, Francis J.
AU - Rudy, Thomas E.
AU - Starz, Terence W.
PY - 2008/6
Y1 - 2008/6
N2 - The purpose of this study was to determine whether a couple-oriented education and support intervention for osteoarthritis was more efficacious than a similar patient-oriented intervention in terms of enhancing spouses' support of patients and their positive and negative responses to patient pain. Repeated-measures analyses of covariance with the completers sample (N = 103 dyads) showed that at the postintervention assessment, patients in the couple-oriented intervention reported a greater decrease in their spouses' punishing responses (e.g., anger, irritation) than did patients in the patient-oriented intervention. In addition, a trend effect was observed in regard to the advantage of couple-oriented intervention for increasing spouses' attempts to distract patients from their pain. At the 6-month follow-up, patients in the couple-oriented intervention reported greater increased spouse support than those in the patient-oriented intervention. Findings illustrate the value of examining change in specific types of marital interactions targeted in a couples intervention, and the need to strengthen the impact of future couple-oriented interventions.
AB - The purpose of this study was to determine whether a couple-oriented education and support intervention for osteoarthritis was more efficacious than a similar patient-oriented intervention in terms of enhancing spouses' support of patients and their positive and negative responses to patient pain. Repeated-measures analyses of covariance with the completers sample (N = 103 dyads) showed that at the postintervention assessment, patients in the couple-oriented intervention reported a greater decrease in their spouses' punishing responses (e.g., anger, irritation) than did patients in the patient-oriented intervention. In addition, a trend effect was observed in regard to the advantage of couple-oriented intervention for increasing spouses' attempts to distract patients from their pain. At the 6-month follow-up, patients in the couple-oriented intervention reported greater increased spouse support than those in the patient-oriented intervention. Findings illustrate the value of examining change in specific types of marital interactions targeted in a couples intervention, and the need to strengthen the impact of future couple-oriented interventions.
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U2 - 10.1037/1091-7527.26.2.185
DO - 10.1037/1091-7527.26.2.185
M3 - Article
C2 - 19946460
AN - SCOPUS:48349111716
SN - 1091-7527
VL - 26
SP - 185
EP - 195
JO - Families, Systems and Health
JF - Families, Systems and Health
IS - 2
ER -
