Empowering children and young people who have asthma

Asthma is the most common chronic condition of childhood. In this review, we discuss an overview of strategies to empower children and young people with asthma. The key aspects of empowerment are to enable shared decision making and self-management, and help children minimise the impact of asthma on their life. The evidence behind these strategies is either sparse or heterogenous, and it is difficult to identify which interventions are most likely to improve clinical outcomes. Wider determinants of health, in high-resource and low-resource settings, can be disempowering for children with asthma. New approaches to technology could help empower young people with asthma and other chronic health conditions.

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This review discusses strategies to empower children and young people with asthma, focusing on shared decision making and self-management. However, the evidence behind these strategies is limited and it is challenging to identify interventions that are most likely to improve clinical outcomes. Additionally, broader determinants of health may disempower children with asthma.