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Table 1 Exclusion criteria

From: Pain coping skills training for African Americans with osteoarthritis (STAART): study protocol of a randomized controlled trial

Diagnosis of gout (in knee or hip), rheumatoid arthritis, fibromyalgia, or other systemic rheumatic disease

 

Dementia or other memory loss condition

 

Active diagnosis of psychosis, serious personality disorder, or current uncontrolled substance abuse disorder

 

Total hip/knee replacement surgery, other hip/knee surgery, ACL tear, or other significant knee/hip injury in the past 6 months

 

Scheduled for or on a waiting list for joint replacement surgery

 

Severely impaired hearing or speech (patients must be able to participate in telephone sessions)

 

Unable to speak English

 

Participating in another OA intervention or CST study

 

Unwilling to be randomized to either study arm

 

Lower extremity paralysis

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