Compliance with Asthmatic Children
Asthma is the most common chronic illness seen in children in the nation and the world. ... 4 million children under the age of 18 in the United States (Saucedo, 2001). ... In children, asthma can bring stress, isolation feelings (among other feelings), and fear. ... Children, especially adolescents, have trouble following long term uses of the medications (Wales, 2001). Non-compliance to health regimens of asthma is a major problem in the world. Most parents say that asthma is easy to control in their children, but these parents also have children that have recurring asthma attacks (Saucedo, 2001). Children often miss school, social activities due to asthma (MacDonald, 2003). ... In adolescents, there is a major decrease of compliance with receiving treatments and taking medications to help prevent and control asthma attacks. ... Asthmatic children feel that by being different from other children, those other children will not accept them as part of their society (Kyngas, 1999). Children with asthma just want to live a normal life like all of their friends. No matter what the reason is for non compliance to the child’s asthma treatments, it needs to be addressed by health care officials. ... They are there to help the child lead a symptom free life as much as the children can (Wales, 2001). The non-compliance of the child and/ or parents of the child lead to an increase of health care cost and failure of prescribed therapies (Kyngas, 1999). ... I definitely see non compliance with adolescents who have asthma and I definitely can see parents of young children having problems following guidelines for asthma children. ... Angela McNelis, PhD, RN, did a study in 2000, Factors Associated with Self-Concept in Children with Asthma, that shown children who have a supportive family, have the highest self-concept of them. ... All of the articles seem to cover the information of compliance of asthmatic children adequately. ... All the articles repeated that children, whether little or adolescence, have trouble following up on their asthma care for many different reasons.