Lay-leds as Educators: A self-Management Educational Programme for Adolescents with Chronic Conditions

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Maria Isabel Dias Costa Malheiro

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Current health guidelines aim to increase the responsibility of people with chronic conditions to self-care. Literature studies highlight educational programmes for self-management of chronic conditions as a holistic approach, involving special health needs and emotional, psychological and social needs. Lorig and Holman (with adults and the elderly population) and Malheiro (with adolescent’s with spina bifida) have proposed self-management educational programmes, using ‘Lay-leds’, as mentors on programmes. These programmes have proven effective, with positive health outcomes, such as improvement on adherence to therapy, functionality and decrease of use of emergency services and hospitalisations and reducing health costs. Thus, we propose to adapt and implement this education programme for self-management of adolescents with diabetes type 1, using Lay-leds as educators, and evaluate their effectiveness on self-management competences, quality of life, self-efficacy, physical activity motivation, self-concept, HbA1c, variability in heart rate, blood pressure, body mass index and anthropometric profile.

Keywords: Self-management programme, adolescents, chronic conditions, Lay-leds.

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Malheiro, M. I. D. C. (2017). Lay-leds as Educators: A self-Management Educational Programme for Adolescents with Chronic Conditions. New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Advances in Pure and Applied Sciences, 2017(8), 68–75. https://doi.org/10.18844/gjapas.v0i8.2818
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