{"title":"Marriage, social support, and adjustment to rheumatic disease.","authors":"T A Revenson, A Gibofsky","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The family is an important source of support for the patient with RA. At the same time, the illness creates stresses for family members that may affect their well-being or inhibit their ability to provide support to the patient. In designing support interventions, one cannot assume that difficulties in adjusting to chronic illness reflect a lack of support from the family or that the patient should be the sole target of intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":75657,"journal":{"name":"Bulletin on the rheumatic diseases","volume":"44 3","pages":"5-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1995-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bulletin on the rheumatic diseases","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The family is an important source of support for the patient with RA. At the same time, the illness creates stresses for family members that may affect their well-being or inhibit their ability to provide support to the patient. In designing support interventions, one cannot assume that difficulties in adjusting to chronic illness reflect a lack of support from the family or that the patient should be the sole target of intervention.