The Rheumatology Attitudes Index and its helplessness subscale are valid and reliable measures of learned helplessness in Asian patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Learned helplessness in systemic lupus erythematosus: analysis using the Rheumatology Attitudes Index.
Evaluation of the structural validity of the RAI in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), yielding results that did not support the use of the RAI with SSc patients.
A Chinese version of the Rheumatology Attitudes Index is a valid and reliable measure of learned helplessnessin patients with SLE.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11958583Perceived control: a comparison of women with fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, and systemic lupus erythematosus using a Swedish version of the Rheumatology Attitudes Index.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8921923Cross cultural equivance of a brief helplessness scale for Spanish speaking rheumatology patients in the United States.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11081004