Is education attainment associated with patient-reported outcomes : findings from the Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register?
Our results suggest clinicians should support patients with low and medium education to a greater extent. Identification of patients who will benefit most from THA and educating those at risk for poorer outcomes, like patients with low and medium education, ultimately may improve patient satisfaction, HRQoL, pain, and the cost utility of THA.
We found that psychological factors that are responsive to cognitive behavioral therapy--catastrophic thinking, in particular--are strongly associated with pain intensity and disability in patients recovering from musculoskeletal trauma.