Abstract
This special issue of Patient Education and Counseling deals with psychosocial and patient-educational aspects of rheumatic diseases, comprising more than 100 chronic diseases with complaints involving the joints and/or connective tissues. The most prevalent forms of rheumatic diseases are osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), ankylosing spondylitis and libromyalgia. The causes of many rheumatic conditions are unknown, and these diseases cannot be prevented or completely cured. However, due to the proportional increase of the ageing population, the number of patients with rheumatic diseases is growing rapidly (Fielts and Yelin, 1989).
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