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Compliance of adolescents with chronic disease
Author(s) -
Kyngäs Helvi
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2702.2000.00368.x
Subject(s) - compliance (psychology) , medicine , affect (linguistics) , disease , feeling , asthma , diabetes mellitus , normality , chronic disease , physical therapy , family medicine , psychiatry , psychology , social psychology , communication , endocrinology
• The purpose of this paper is to describe the factors that affect compliance in adolescents with a chronic illness and to compare compliance and factors connected to compliance between adolescents with asthma, epilepsy, rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) and insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). • The data were collected by questionnaire. Altogether 1200 individuals were selected from the Finnish Social Insurance Institution’s register. The response percentage was 88 ( n =1061). • One‐fifth (23%) of adolescents with chronic disease felt that they had complied fully with health regimens, while 60% placed themselves in the category of satisfactory compliance and the remaining 17% reported poor compliance. • In each patient group compliance was promoted by good motivation, a strong sense of normality, a positive attitude towards the disease and treatment, energy and will‐power, experience of results, support from the parents, nurses and physicians, and a feeling that the disease was not a threat to social well‐being.