14.04.2018 | Original Article
The impact of coping patterns and chronic health conditions on health-related quality of life among children and adolescents
Erschienen in: European Journal of Pediatrics | Ausgabe 6/2018
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What is Known:
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• The literature on coping has widely documented the existence of individual (unique) coping strategies.
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• Coping strategies are considered “useful” or “non-useful,” based on whether they increase or decrease negative outcomes caused by certain stressors, such as chronic illness.
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What is New:
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• Our findings suggest that youngsters can use “non-useful” strategies to reduce stress caused by chronic illness, while still maintaining higher quality of life, as long as they also apply certain “useful” strategies.
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• The use of certain combinations of coping strategies, rather than single strategies, is more important to our understanding of how coping affects HRQOL of children with chronic disease.
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