A Review of Psychosocial Interventions for Children With Chronic Health Conditions

There appear to be a number of successful programs designed to help children and their families adjust to a number of long-term health conditions such as asthma or cancer. However, many of the research methods used to study the effectiveness of these programs may be flawed. Highlights and evaluation...

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Published in:Pediatrics (Evanston) 1997-08, Vol.100 (2), p.244-251
Main Authors: Bauman, Laurie J, Drotar, Dennis, Leventhal, John M, Perrin, Ellen C, Pless, I. Barry
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asthma - psychology
Asthma - therapy
Biological and medical sciences
Care and treatment
Child
Child psychology
Children
Children & youth
Chronic Disease - psychology
Chronic Disease - therapy
Chronic diseases
Chronic diseases in children
Chronic illnesses
Clinical trials
Clinical Trials as Topic - methods
Diseases
Epilepsy - psychology
Epilepsy - therapy
Evaluation
Humans
Medical research
Medical sciences
Medicine, Experimental
Neoplasms - psychology
Neoplasms - therapy
Patient Education as Topic
Pediatric diseases
Pediatrics
Prevention and actions
Program Evaluation
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Research Design
Self Care
Specific populations (family, woman, child, elderly...)
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Summary:There appear to be a number of successful programs designed to help children and their families adjust to a number of long-term health conditions such as asthma or cancer. However, many of the research methods used to study the effectiveness of these programs may be flawed. Highlights and evaluations of 15 such programs have been presented. These studies could have been more valuable if the researchers had used more participants, defined treatment success more specifically and consistently, and based their interventions on known psychosocial theories.
ISSN:0031-4005
1098-4275
DOI:10.1542/peds.100.2.244