Self-Management of Chronic Disease
A special issue of Nursing Reports (ISSN 2039-4403).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 4606
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nursing Reports intends to publish a Special Issue on the topic of “Self-Management of Chronic Disease” in 2024. You are invited to submit a proposal for a manuscript for this Special Issue. Chronic disease accounts for 74% of all deaths worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. There are at least 20 recognized chronic diseases, and many tend to occur in clusters, accounting for the high incidence of multiple chronic conditions in individuals. Health behaviors are the leading contributors to these highly prevalent conditions. There is evidence for the improvement in these conditions through self-management practices. This Special Issue welcomes manuscripts which address the theories of self-management, the effective components in self-management, the self-management of multiple chronic conditions, patient adherence to self-management practices, the training of providers in the delivery of self-management education for patients, self-management effectiveness with co-occurring mental health conditions and across the age span, and related topics.
Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Dunbar-Jacob
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- self-management
- chronic disorders
- multimorbidity
- health behavior change
- self-regulation
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