The fact that illness representations turn out to be predictors of outcome, even when the baseline health status is statistically controlled, highlights the relevance of the illness representations of patients with fibromyalgia. Therefore, effective and efficient methods should be developed for integrating patient's illness beliefs into the management of the illness as early as possible.
The results indicate that participation in a follow-up programme is often not compatible with employment. We could not satisfactorily explain why women were more likely to participate in the programme. This result could have been related to women's more flexible time schedules. An improvement of the current situation could be achieved by having follow-up programmes closer to the home, by flexible follow-up offerings, alternative follow-up services (e. g. in certified physiotherapy centres and sport clubs) as well as by integrating companies in follow-up planning and implementation.
108 adolescents with type 1 diabetes as well as their parents and physicians in charge were studied in a prospective longitudinal design. Most of the juvenile patients were of good metabolic control. The results from different questionnaires of coping are presented. The opinions of the patients, their parents and the physicians in charge differ in some important aspects. Furthermore there are significant differences between the patients of best versus worst metabolic control as far as the extent of self reported psychosocial problems related with the disease is concerned.
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