Reumatizam
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The aim of the study was to determine association between active and passive pain coping strategies with some psychological and functional variables in 67 chronic RA patients. Active strategies reveal negative association with helplessness with as results of illness, and passive strategies reveal positive association with depression, helplessness and functional impairment. The patients who are using mostly active pain coping strategies reveal significantly less helplessness in coping with RA.
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This paper points at the role of parents in performance and supervision of out institutional treatment and rehabilitation of children suffering from juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA) dealing with educational--motivating elements in work of parents with ill child. Medical psycho-sociological and pedagogic aspects of work of parents with ill child has been presented. For each indicated educational--motivating unity parents have to be completely prepared for better and more complete than usual piling of facts and presenting in front of them unsolvable tasks and obligations. Should child's rheumatologist succeed in this a plan of individual continuous treatment and rehabilitation of each patient suffering from JCA shall meet with success.