[Educational-motivational guidelines for working with parents of children with juvenile chronic arthritis]. / Edukacijsko-motivacijske smjernice za rad s roditeljima djece oboljele od juvenilnog kronicnog artritisa (JKA).

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.

[Health knowledge in patients with rheumatic diseases]. / Zdravstvena prosvijecenost reumatskih bolesnika.

An inquiry was made on a group of 188 rheumatic patients chosen by random in three rheumatologic out-patient services. The inquiry showed a very poor knowledge of the disease and its functional prognosis, great differences in the patient's opinion on the value of his personal engagement in the treatment and rehabilitation, as well as many other parameters that influence the patient's positive behaviour in health matters. Evaluating the data from the inquiry, the authors found the highest level of health-education in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis, whereas those with degenerative and extraarticular rheumatism had lesser knowledge. The authors conclude from this study, that much more attention has to be paid in future to health-education of rheumatic patients.