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Pediatric self-management: a framework for research, practice, and policy

Avani C Modi et al. Pediatrics. 2012 Feb.

Abstract

Self-management of chronic pediatric conditions is a formidable challenge for patients, families, and clinicians, with research demonstrating a high prevalence of poor self-management and nonadherence across pediatric conditions. Nevertheless, effective self-management is necessary to maximize treatment efficacy and clinical outcomes and to reduce unnecessary health care utilization and costs. However, this complex behavior is poorly understood as a result of insufficient definitions, reliance on condition-specific and/or adult models of self-management, failure to consider the multitude of factors that influence patient self-management behavior, and lack of synthesis of research, clinical practice, and policy implications. To address this need, we present a comprehensive conceptual model of pediatric self-management that articulates the individual, family, community, and health care system level influences that impact self-management behavior through cognitive, emotional, and social processes. This model further describes the relationship among self-management, adherence, and outcomes at both the patient and system level. Implications for research, clinical practice, and health care policy concerning pediatric chronic care are emphasized with a particular focus on modifiable influences, evidence-based targets for intervention, and the role of clinicians in the provision of self-management support. We anticipate that this unified conceptual approach will equip stakeholders in pediatric health care to (1) develop evidence-based interventions to improve self-management, (2) design programs aimed at preventing the development of poor self-management behaviors, and (3) inform health care policy that will ultimately improve the health and psychosocial outcomes of children with chronic conditions.

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FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE: The authors have indicated they have no financial relationships relevant to this article to disclose.

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FIGURE 1. In the Pediatric Self-management Model, self-management behaviors (pictured left) operate within individual, family, community, and health care system domains. Modifiable and nonmodifiable domain-specific influences impact self-management through underlying cognitive, emotional, and social processes. The degree to which self-management behaviors affect adherence, and ultimately outcomes, may result in changes in self-management behaviors.

FIGURE 1

In the Pediatric Self-management Model, self-management behaviors (pictured left) operate within individual, family, community, and health care system domains. Modifiable and nonmodifiable domain-specific influences impact self-management through underlying cognitive, emotional, and social processes. The degree to which self-management behaviors affect adherence, and ultimately outcomes, may result in changes in self-management behaviors.

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