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Chronic illness in adolescents
Author(s) -
Sawyer Michael G,
Couper Jennifer J,
Martin A James,
Kennedy J Declan
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05525.x
Subject(s) - medicine , library science , computer science
The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 1 September 2003 179 5 237-237 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2003 www.mja.com.au Through Life result, the daily lives of adolescents with chronic illness ar often very different from those of their healthy peers. Adolescents with a chronic illness have usually lived wit the illness for much of their lives. Although there is general no prospect of a cure, they have to complete time-consum ing and inconvenient treatment tasks every day. Treatmen THIRTY YEARS AGO, Pless and Pinkerton highlighted the fact that, although children and adolescents experience a diverse range of illnesses, those with chronic conditions have great similarities in their life experiences and in the preventive and rehabilitative aspects of their lives. Since then, the intensity of treatment programs recommended for managing adolescent chronic illnesses has increased greatly. As a e