The mediating role of coping in the relationship between perceived health and psychological wellbeing in recurrent urinary tract infection: the rUTI Illness Process Model
Abigail F Newlands, Melissa L Kramer, Kayleigh Maxwell, Jessica L Price, Katherine A Finlay · 2024
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Abigail F Newlands and co-authors model how coping shapes quality of life for people with recurrent urinary tract infections. The condition brings heavy symptoms plus a sting of stigma and letdown from healthcare. Nearly three hundred ninety adults, almost all women, from several countries completed standard scales for health, mood, resilience, pain thinking, and coping.
Modeling showed that how people rated their health fed into how well they felt psychologically, and coping carried part of that link. Resilience strengthened coping; catastrophic pain thinking weakened it. Younger and poorer patients looked most vulnerable to poor outcomes. The authors name their model the rUTI Illness Process Model. Their prescription is patient-centered care that works on illness beliefs and coping skills directly, rather than treating infections alone and wondering why patients still struggle.
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| CREATOR | Abigail F Newlands, Melissa L Kramer, Kayleigh Maxwell, Jessica L Price, Katherine A Finlay |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |