Illness in childhood may vary from non acute condition to acute and chronic conditions. Children with chronic conditions need long term care and continued attention in every stage of life. The care burden can lead to stress among children suffering with those conditions as well as their parents and family. Normally children and parents adapt to some kind of coping mechanisms to overcome the stress. These coping mechanisms may be positive or negative. As nurses are playing vital role in caring of children with chronic illness, they can help the children, parents and family to successfully cope with the demanding situations. The nursing care should be embedded with developmental needs of children. The future hopes for enhancing coping mechanism include active consumerism, inter disciplinary care, use of technology.
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2022: 6.012
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