OBJECTIVE To review empirical studies of psychological interventions for nonadherence to medical regimens for three chronic illnesses: asthma, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), and type 1 diabetes. METHODS The Chambless criteria for "promising," "probably efficacious," or "well-established" were applied to 8 intervention studies on asthma, 4 on JRA, and 11 on type 1 diabetes. RESULTS For...

the purpose of this study was to investigate any association between iga deficiency (igad) and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (jra) among iranian children. this case-control study was carried out on 83 children who were diagnosed as jra according to american college of rheumatology (acr) criteria; patients were admitted at the rheumatology clinic of children's medical center, (tehran). serum imm...

Abstract. The planetary boundary layer (PBL) governs the vertical transport of mass, momentum, and moisture between surface free atmosphere, thus determination PBL height (BLH) is recognized as crucial for air quality, weather, climate analysis. Although reanalysis products can provide important insight into global view BLH in a seamless way, observed situ on scale remains poorly understood due...

Although juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) was first described by Cornil (1864) and by Still (1897), the paediatrician often encounters aetiological, diagnostic, and prognostic problems. The purpose of the present follow-up study is to review our experience of this disease in recent years in an attempt to add to our knowledge of its natural history and in particular to clarify the long-term p...

Usual techniques for the detection of antigammaglobulin factors (DAT, SCAT, HEAT, Latex FII) are based upon agglutination reactions and are therefore useful when IgM antibodies are involved. It is well known that antiglobulins also belong to IgG and IgA classes. In our experience, 50 per cent. of patients with JRA are persistently seronegative when sera are tested only with conventional aggluti...

PURPOSE Children with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA) rarely report temporomandibular joint (TMJ) pain, which may be due to pain avoidance mechanisms resulting in compromised masticatory function. This study examined the relationship between self-report measures of pain and dysfunction and measures of chewing performance in 44 JRA children and 34 normal controls. METHODS The children were...

OBJECTIVE To determine the degree to which mothers of children with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) show an overprotective or highly controlling interaction style. METHOD We videotaped 84 mother-child pairs (42 JRA and 42 healthy, ages 6 to 13) while working on a collaborative problem-solving task. Based on physical therapy evaluations, children in the JRA group were assigned to "more sev...

OBJECTIVE To determine the spectrum of clinical presentation, laboratory parameters and drug therapy in patients with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA). STUDY DESIGN Case series. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The Children's Hospital and The Institute of Child Health, Lahore, from October 2008 to October 2011. METHODOLOGY All patients who fulfilled the American College of Rheumatology crit...

Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) is thought by many to be a different disease from rheumatoid arthritis in adults (RA), partly because of the infrequency of pathological serological phenomena (Calabro, 1966). Recent investigations have, however, shown that antigammaglobulin and antinuclear antibodies are often found in sera from patients with JRA (KAss and Munthe, 1969; Torrigiani, Ansell, C...