Higher levels of physical activity are associated with less evasive coping, better physical function and quality of life in patients with axial spondyloarthritis

• Marlies Carbo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9234-0608

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• Davy Paap,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, Department of Physical Therapy, Saxion, University of Applied Sciences, Enschede, The Netherlands

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• Laura van Overbeeke,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Human Movement Sciences, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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• Freke Wink,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology, Medical Center Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

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• Hendrika Bootsma,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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• Suzanne Arends,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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• Anneke Spoorenberg

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: a.spoorenberg@umcg.nl

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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