Abstract: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic progressive joint disorder with unpredictable symptoms and painful course. RA can affect person in younger age and cannot be cured permanently. RA may lead to undesirable consequences in personal and professional life of patients which includes restrictions to pursue one‟s career goals, reduced social engagements and altered family responsibilities. Researches with biomedical perspective majorly discuss various biomedical interventions and their health outcomes. However, very few publications are available in the arthritis pain literature which study patient‟s life experiences with RA and discuss the health outcomes of various psychosocialspiritual pain management strategies employed by patients. To the author‟s best knowledge, in India the Rheumatoid arthritis has been very scarcely investigated from patient‟s point of view and psychosocial perspective......
KEY WORDS: Rheumatoid Arthritis, Pain acceptance, psychological, social, spiritual coping mechanisms.
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