PURPOSE
The aim of this study was to investigate the difference of in the level of pain, depression, and quality of life by coping strategy in the chronic arthritis patients.
METHOD
These data were collected by means of a self-reported questionnaire from 90 chronic arthritis patients undergoing treatment at a university hospital in Daegu city from June 10, 2000 to July 15, 2000. The instruments of study were coping strategy scale by Jeon(1985), pain scale by Lee and Song(1987), depression scale by Radloff(1977) and quality of life scale by Cho(1987). Data analysis was done by SPSS Win 10.0 program and Pearson correlation, t-test, Cronbach's-alpha were used.
RESULT
The results of this study were as follows: 1. The item mean score of pain for chronic arthritis patient was 6.54. The item mean score of depression for chronic arthritis patient was 2.18. The item mean score of quality of life for chronic arthritis patient was 5.69. 2. The chronic arthritis patients with problem-focused coping experienced pain higher than those with emotion-focused coping(t=o.400, p=o.o45). The chronic arthritis patients with emotion-focused coping experienced depression higher than those with problem-focused coping(t=-2.564, p=0.012). The chronic arthritis patients with problem-focused coping experienced quality of life higher than emotion-focused coping(t=-1.682, p=0.046).
CONCLUSION
In conclusion this study showed that any coping strategy can control the arthritis patient's problem. Therfore, The development of a coping strategy to reduce pain and depression and improve the quality of life in the chronic arthritis patient will be needed.

This study was conducted to identify the relationships among quality of life, ADL, depression and self-efficacy in people with chronic arthritis. Firth two patients with chronic arthritis participated in this study. The data were collected from 5th Jan. To 15th Oct., 1997. SPSS program was utilized for data with mean, standard deviation, pearson's correlation coefficient. The results of this study were as follows ; 1. The mean score of quality of life was 5.47, representing moderate degree of quality of life. The mean scores were 2.54 for ADL, 2.06 for depression and 61.69 for self-efficacy. 2. Significant correlations between quality of life and ADL, self-efficacy, and depression were found. quality of life was positively related to ADL and self-efficacy, while negative correlation was shown between quality of life and depression. 3. When correlated with demographic characteristics, quality of life was significantly negatively related to duration of illness. The study results suggested that nursing intervention such as, self-help education improving self-efficacy would be useful for patients who are depressed and have limited ADL.