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Resilience Of Patients Undergoing Knee And Shoulder Arthroscopy Procedures, Jillian Mazzocca, Natalie Lowenstein, Connor Crutchfield, Jamie Collins, Elizabeth Matzkin
Resilience Of Patients Undergoing Knee And Shoulder Arthroscopy Procedures, Jillian Mazzocca, Natalie Lowenstein, Connor Crutchfield, Jamie Collins, Elizabeth Matzkin
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INTRODUCTION: Resilience is a person's capacity to overcome adversity. The purpose was to determine what patient factors correlate with resilience using the Brief Resilience Score. We hypothesize that characteristics of female sex, younger age, Workers' Compensation status, and preoperative opioid use are predictors of a lower preoperative resilience score and that patients with positive psychosocial factors would have higher resilience scores.
METHODS: Eight hundred nine patients undergoing knee or shoulder arthroscopy were preoperatively categorized into low, normal, and high-resilience groups. Preoperative patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and demographics were assessed. Statistical analyses evaluated differences in demographics and PROMs between resilience groups. …