Subscales/psychological course measurements (n = 34)
| Baseline | 3 Months | 6 Months | Follow up (12 months) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All course measurements relate to the comparison with the baseline data (comparing first/second, first/third, and first/fourth measuring time points). | ||||||||
| Significant changes: *p<0.05 **p<0.01 ***p<0.001. | ||||||||
| FAL, everyday life questionnaire; FKV, Freiburg questionnaire on coping with illness; HADS-D, hospital anxiety and depression scale–German version; KKG, questionnaire for registration of control convictions relating to illness and health; SCL-90-R, symptom checklist 90, revised version; SESA, self acceptance registration scale; SF-36, short form 36 item general health questionnaire; SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus. | ||||||||
| SCL-90-R | ||||||||
| Somatisation | 62.38 (10.05) | 58.97 (8.84)** | 60.24 (10.28) | 58.79 (10.88)* | ||||
| Compulsion | 60.24 (8.74) | 57.06 (7.75)** | 56.00 (8.57)*** | 56.91 (9.48)* | ||||
| Insecurity | 55.59 (8.44) | 52.32 (9.34)* | 51.41 (8.11)** | 52.85 (9.87) | ||||
| Depression | 59.38 (8.26) | 55.18 (8.73)** | 55.47 (8.37)** | 55.06 (10.32)** | ||||
| Anxiety | 58.88 (9.32) | 54.56 (8.35)** | 53.56 (8.34)*** | 54.59 (9.33)** | ||||
| Aggression | 57.82 (8.76) | 53.03 (7.99)** | 52.85 (8.35)** | 51.62 (10.20)*** | ||||
| Phobic anxiety | 54.00 (9.52) | 52.32 (7.85) | 50.47 (8.08)* | 50.38 (8.36)* | ||||
| Paranoid thinking | 53.65 (9.32) | 50.62 (7.38)** | 49.24 (7.76)** | 49.68 (9.59)** | ||||
| Psychoticism | 55.26 (8.04) | 54.09 (6.97) | 53.00 (7.64) | 53.24 (8.78) | ||||
| Overall mental burden (GSI) | 59.74 (7.45) | 56.15 (6.77)** | 55.59 (7.44)*** | 55.41 (9.54)** | ||||
| SF-36 | ||||||||
| Physical function | 67.79 (21.57) | 70.00 (24.83) | 65.74 (26.26) | 70.88 (23.40) | ||||
| Physical role limitation | 32.35 (37.20) | 47.06 (42.09) | 39.71 (36.99) | 54.41 (43.72)* | ||||
| Pain | 45.09 (24.55) | 48.56 (26.94) | 49.94 (26.24) | 54.44 (29.94) | ||||
| General health | 39.00 (14.33) | 44.41 (13.47)** | 44.38 (14.70)* | 46.32 (20.58)* | ||||
| Vitality | 36.03 (18.21) | 41.18 (19.58) | 45.00 (18.79)* | 44.85 (20.76)* | ||||
| Social functioning | 55.12 (25.40) | 68.01 (24.07)* | 69.12 (23.68)* | 67.65 (27.20)* | ||||
| Emotional role limitation | 50.00 (42.04) | 75.49 (37.88)** | 75.49 (38.76)** | 75.49 (37.88)** | ||||
| Mental health | 55.65 (20.76) | 63.65 (16.55)** | 67.53 (15.31)** | 63.88 (19.06)* | ||||
| Change in state of health | 2.79 (1.12) | 2.76 (1.16) | 2.47 (1.13) | 2.47 (1.11) | ||||
| HADS-D | ||||||||
| Anxiety | 7.18 (3.72) | 6.09 (3.05) | 5.53 (3.47)** | 5.71 (4.06)* | ||||
| Depression | 7.26 (4.60) | 5.97 (3.95)** | 5.38 (3.67)** | 5.41 (3.99)** | ||||
| KKG | ||||||||
| Control conviction: self | 49.50 (34.44) | 38.79 (30.77) | 42.85 (32.31) | 40.26 (33.74)* | ||||
| Control conviction: doctors | 81.68 (22.08) | 77.41 (26.81) | 74.53 (29.49) | 74.82 (26.62)* | ||||
| Control conviction: chance/fate | 88.82 (21.03) | 86.94 (19.91) | 87.97 (16.44) | 86.56 (20.80) | ||||
| FKV | ||||||||
| Depressive coping | 2.45 (.77) | 2.24 (.71)* | 2.14 (.80)* | 2.05 (.65)** | ||||
| Active problem oriented coping | 3.41 (.73) | 3.40 (.83) | 3.45 (.85) | 3.46 (.72) | ||||
| Distraction/self encouragement | 3.23 (.98) | 3.26 (.72) | 3.35 (.63) | 3.24 (.65) | ||||
| Religiousness/search for meaning | 2.86 (.79) | 2.85 (.83) | 2.92 (.87) | 2.88 (.92) | ||||
| Playing down/wishful thinking | 2.61 (.98) | 2.40 (1.01) | 2.25 (.88)* | 2.22 (.88)** | ||||
| SESA | ||||||||
| Self acceptance | 108.74 (20.06) | 111.00 (19.05) | 113.06 (19.26)* | 115.91 (18.03)** | ||||
| FAL | ||||||||
| Everyday life | 32.18 (7.42) | 34.18 (7.11) | 33.29 (7.89) | 34.94 (7.19)* | ||||
| Social life | 31.26 (7.94) | 34.56 (6.11)* | 34.65 (5.87)* | 35.15 (5.71)** | ||||
| Medical care | 10.88 (3.06) | 11.56 (2.52) | 11.12 (2.52) | 11.32 (2.36) | ||||