Effects of emotional disclosure on psychological and physiological outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: an exploratory home-based study

Mark A Wetherell; Lucie Byrne-Davis; Paul Dieppe; Jenny Donovan; Sara Brookes; Margaret Byron; Kavita Vedhara; Robert Horne; John Weinman; Jeremy Miles

doi:10.1177/1359105305049778

Effects of emotional disclosure on psychological and physiological outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: an exploratory home-based study

Mark A Wetherell, Lucie Byrne-Davis, Paul Dieppe, Jenny Donovan, Sara Brookes, Margaret Byron, Kavita Vedhara, Robert Horne, John Weinman, Jeremy Miles

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The effects of an exploratory, home-based emotional disclosure intervention on psychological and physiological outcomes were assessed in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Patients were randomly assigned to a disclosure group (n = 19) in which they wrote/talked about traumatic personal experiences, or to a control group (n = 15) in which they wrote/talked about the events of a particular day. Participants undertook these tasks for periods of 20 minutes on 4 consecutive days. The disclosure group demonstrated increases in negative mood and objective markers of disease activity at 1 week post-intervention. However, there were significant trends for the disclosure group to demonstrate minor improvements in mood and stability in disease activity, compared with the control group. These group differences appeared to be due to deteriorations in the control group more than improvements in the disclosure group. Copyright © 2005 SAGE Publications.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	277-285
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Health Psychology
Volume	10
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105305049778
Publication status	Published - Mar 2005

Keywords

Disease activity
Emotional disclosure
Inhibition
Rheumatoid arthritis
Stress

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Wetherell, M. A., Byrne-Davis, L., Dieppe, P., Donovan, J., Brookes, S., Byron, M., Vedhara, K., Horne, R., Weinman, J., & Miles, J. (2005). Effects of emotional disclosure on psychological and physiological outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: an exploratory home-based study. Journal of Health Psychology, 10(2), 277-285. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105305049778

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Effects of emotional disclosure on psychological and physiological outcomes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: an exploratory home-based study

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