1 40 1 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Citation List Month Backlog URL Address <a href="http://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-10-107" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-10-107</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Emotion regulation in patients with rheumatic diseases: validity and responsiveness of the Emotional Approach Coping Scale (EAC) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Bmc Musculoskeletal Disorders Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009 Subject The topic of the resource adolescent; Cross-Sectional Studies; Female; Humans; Male; Young Adult; Pain Measurement; Adult; Emotions; Aged; Middle Aged; Activities of Daily Living; Stress; 80 and over; Adaptation; Psychological; Rheumatic Diseases Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Zangi HA; Garratt A; Hagen KB; Stanton AL; Mowinckel P; Finset A Description An account of the resource BACKGROUND: Chronic rheumatic diseases are painful conditions which are not entirely controllable and can place high emotional demands on individuals. Increasing evidence has shown that emotion regulation in terms of actively processing and expressing disease-related emotions are likely to promote positive adjustment in patients with chronic diseases. The Emotional Approach Coping Scale (EAC) measures active attempts to acknowledge, understand, and express emotions. Although tested in other clinical samples, the EAC has not been validated for patients with rheumatic diseases. This study evaluated the data quality, internal consistency reliability, validity and responsiveness of the Norwegian version of the EAC for this group of patients. METHODS: 220 patients with different rheumatic diseases were included in a cross-sectional study in which data quality and internal consistency were assessed. Construct validity was assessed through comparisons with the Brief Approach/Avoidance Coping Questionnaire (BACQ) and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-20). Responsiveness was tested in a longitudinal pretest-posttest study of two different coping interventions, the Vitality Training Program (VTP) and a Self-Management Program (SMP). RESULTS: The EAC had low levels of missing data. Results from principal component analysis supported two subscales, Emotional Expression and Emotional Processing, which had high Cronbach's alphas of 0.90 and 0.92, respectively. The EAC had correlations with approach-oriented items in the BACQ in the range 0.17-0.50. The EAC Expression scale had a significant negative correlation with the GHQ-20 of -0.13. As hypothesized, participation in the VTP significantly improved EAC scores, indicating responsiveness to change. CONCLUSION: The EAC is an acceptable and valid instrument for measuring emotional processing and expression in patients with rheumatic diseases. The EAC scales were responsive to change in an intervention designed to promote emotion regulation. The instrument has not yet been tested for test-retest reliability, which is recommended in future studies. 2009 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="http://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-10-107" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">10.1186/1471-2474-10-107</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Article information provided for research and reference use only. PedPalASCNET does not hold any rights over the resource listed here. All rights are retained by the journal listed under publisher and/or the creator(s). Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article 2009 80 And Over Activities of Daily Living Adaptation Adolescent Adult Aged Backlog Bmc Musculoskeletal Disorders Cross-sectional Studies Emotions Female Finset A Garratt A Hagen KB Humans Journal Article Male Middle Aged Mowinckel P Pain Measurement Psychological Rheumatic Diseases Stanton AL Stress Young Adult Zangi HA