Perceptions of, and willingness to consider, total joint arthroplasty in a population‐based cohort of individuals with disabling hip and knee arthritis
- 5 August 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Arthritis Care & Research
- Vol. 51 (4), 635-641
- https://doi.org/10.1002/art.20524
Abstract
To examine perceptions of total joint arthroplasty (TJA) and how they relate to willingness to consider TJA. A population-based survey in Oxford County, Ontario, Canada identified 1,735 subjects ≥55 years with disabling hip or knee arthritis; 435 English-speaking respondents with no prior TJA and not on a TJA waiting list were invited to participate, and 379 (37.1%) agreed. We assessed demographics; comorbidity; evaluated and perceived arthritis severity; perceived risks, benefits, indications for, and knowledge of TJA; preferred decision-making style; self efficacy; and willingness to consider TJA by questionnaire. Participants' mean age was 67.6 years; 33.5% were willing (definitely or probably) to consider TJA as a treatment option. Willingness was independently associated with younger age (odds ratio [OR] P = 0.01); worse perceived arthritis severity (OR per unit increase 1.30, P < 0.001); perceiving TJA as appropriate for moderate, controlled joint pain (OR 3.29, P = 0.004); walking limited to P = 0.015); the risk of revision as acceptable (OR 3.73, P < 0.001); and friends as an important health information source (OR 2.49, P = 0.01). Participants overestimated the pain and disability needed to warrant TJA. These misperceptions were strongly associated with unwillingness to consider TJA and should be addressed at a population level.This publication has 42 references indexed in Scilit:
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