RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Empowering children and young people who have asthma
JF Archives of Disease in Childhood
JO Arch Dis Child
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 125
OP 129
DO 10.1136/archdischild-2020-318788
VO 106
IS 2
A1 Sinha, Ian P
A1 Brown, Lynsey
A1 Fulton, Olivia
A1 Gait, Lucy
A1 Grime, Christopher
A1 Hepworth, Claire
A1 Lilley, Andrew
A1 Murray, Morgan
A1 Simba, Justus
YR 2021
UL http://adc.bmj.com/content/106/2/125.abstract
AB Asthma is the most common chronic condition of childhood. In this review, we discuss an overview of strategies to empower children and young people with asthma. The key aspects of empowerment are to enable shared decision making and self-management, and help children minimise the impact of asthma on their life. The evidence behind these strategies is either sparse or heterogenous, and it is difficult to identify which interventions are most likely to improve clinical outcomes. Wider determinants of health, in high-resource and low-resource settings, can be disempowering for children with asthma. New approaches to technology could help empower young people with asthma and other chronic health conditions.