Determinants of Disability After Fingertip Injuries

Adjustment to hand injury: Cross-sectional survey exploring adjustment in relation to illness perceptions and coping strategies

“…Interestingly 41.5% of the variability found in this measure was explained by the illness beliefs and coping styles where greater functioning impairments were related to, in particular, greater use of emotional support. Bot et al 9 reported that psychological variables were the greatest predictor of disability within their population and suggested that this was due to patients' self-efficacy and belief in their own ability to cope with and manage their hand injury. Chan et al 4 similarly found that within their hand injury population there was no correlation between the objective severity of the injury and the subjective severity nor the patient's illness perceptions.…”

“…It has been widely used within physical health and primary care settings and is generally considered to be a reliable and valid measure of mood, specifically depression, with good internal consistency and testretest results. 9,38,39 The PHQ-9 consists of 9 items designed to map onto the diagnostic criteria for depression in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). 40 Each item is scored on a Likert scale from 0 to 3 (0=not at all, 1=several days, 2=more than half the days, 3=nearly every day) to indicate how much the individual has been bothered by each symptom in the past 2 weeks.…”

“…38 The Brief COPE 41 The QuickDASH 44 is a measure of functional ability in an individuals' arm, shoulder or hand and is used as a measure of functional recovery and adaptation within the hand injury literature. 9 The QuickDASH consists of 11 items; 8 addressing function and 3 addressing symptoms such as pain. As a brief version of the well-established DASH measure, 45 Angst et al's 46 paper reviewing both measures, importantly found that both had comparable testretest reliability.…”

“…5 A range of studies have documented the impact a hand injury can have on body image, psychosocial difficulties, employment and relationships, as well as mood. [6][7][8][9] Given the wide ranging impact a hand injury can have on an individual, developing a greater understanding of the factors that may help to promote adjustment in terms of biological, psychological, and social adjustment would be beneficial.…”

SURGICAL MANAGEMENT OF DISTAL PHALANGEAL INJURIES OF FINGERS (review)

“…Согласно данным A. Bot и соавт. (2014), при повреждении ДФП важную роль в нетрудоспо-собности могут играть такие психологические факторы, как депрессия, катастрофическое мышление и эффективная саморегуляция при боли [26].…”