Session Information
Date: Monday, November 11, 2019
Title: Epidemiology & Public Health Poster II: Spondyloarthritis & Connective Tissue Disease
Session Type: Poster Session (Monday)
Session Time: 9:00AM-11:00AM
Background/Purpose: At present, there are few researches on cognitive emotional regulation, body image, family and marital function, and life quality of female patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in China. The aim of this study is to explore the relationships of these factors, and to build a path equation model among these factors.
Methods: Participants in the study included 242 female patients with SLE from three hospitals of China. The questionnaires contained demographic information sheet, SLE Disease Activity Index (SLEDAI), Lupus Quality of Life (LupusQoL), Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), Body Image Lupus Scale (BILS), Family and Marital Functioning Measures (FFM and MFM). Statistical methods included descriptive analysis, correlation analysis, one-way ANOVA, multiple linear regression, and path equation modeling analysis.
Results: We identified non-adaptive strategies score was negatively correlated with the total score of life quality (r=-0.589, P< 0.05). The score of body image (r=0.466, P< 0.05) and the total score of family and marital function (r=0.562, P< 0.05) were both positively correlated with the total score of life quality. Adaptive strategies score was positively correlated with the total score of family and marital function (r=0.149, P< 0.05), and non-adaptive strategies score was negatively correlated with the body image score (r=-0.313, P< 0.05) and the total score of family and marital function (r=-0.476, P< 0.05). The body image score was positively correlated with the total score of family and marital function (r=0.285, P< 0.05). Moreover, path equation model showed that adaptive strategies had direct positive effect on family and marital function (β=0.227, P=0.000); non-adaptive strategies had direct negative effect on body image (β=-0.231, P=0.001), family and marital function (β=-0.494, P=0.000), and quality of life (β=-0.358, P=0.000); SLEDAI scores had direct negative effect on body image (β=-0.140, P=0.041), family and marital function (β=-0.263, P=0.000), and quality of life (β=-0.363, P=0.000); family and marital function had direct positive effect on body image (β=0.116, P=0.030) and quality of life (β=0.171, P=0.000); body image had direct positive effect on quality of life (β=0.201, P=0.000).
Conclusion: Our results prove that in female SLE patients, non-adaptive strategies lead to low quality of life; and the better the body image and family and marital function, the higher the quality of life. In addition, body image and family and marital function have direct positive effect on quality of life; cognitive emotion regulation styles have direct and/or indirect effect on quality of life. Body image and family and marital function, as mediated variables, can mediate the relationship between cognitive emotion regulation styles and quality of life.
To cite this abstract in AMA style:
Zhang H, Li L, Chen M, Zhang Q. Relationships Among Cognitive Emotion Regulation, Body Image, Family and Marital Function and Quality of Life in Chinese Female Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus [abstract]. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2019; 71 (suppl 10). https://acrabstracts.org/abstract/relationships-among-cognitive-emotion-regulation-body-image-family-and-marital-function-and-quality-of-life-in-chinese-female-patients-with-systemic-lupus-erythematosus/. Accessed .« Back to 2019 ACR/ARP Annual Meeting
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