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While self-management support has been a component of adult chronic care for decades, it is just emerging as a critical need for children, especially those with complex conditions. Self-management is a shared undertaking between the child, their parents and care providers, and must take into account the child’s developmental status and the family’s capacities. Clinicians need routine, standardized approaches and tools to address the unique needs of children and their families including assessing self-management skills, collaboratively setting goals, and promoting competence and autonomy in youth. 

مناقشة المقال، Supporting Self-Management in Children and Adolescents with Complex Chronic Conditions, the lead author and experts in the field reviewed the article’s key content and discussed how health systems could better support self-management by pediatric patients and their families.

هذه المقالة جزء من مكمل ل طب الأطفال بعنوان "بناء أنظمة مناسبة للأطفال ذوي الاحتياجات الصحية المعقدة". 

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المتحدثون

Amy Houtrow, MD, PhD, MPH

Chief, Division of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine and Vice Chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

Melissa Novotny, DNP

Nurse Practitioner, Pediatric Complex Care Program and Pediatric Cerebral Palsy Clinic, American Family Children’s Hospital

Avani Modi, PhD

Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Center for Adherence and Self-Management, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

ريشي ك. أجراوال، دكتور في الطب، ماجستير في الصحة العامة

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Pediatric Specialist, Lurie and La Rabida Children’s Hospital in Chicago