The cross-talk between family and pediatrician: The case of bronchial asthma

Salvatore Leonardi, Rossella Pecoraro, Maria Teresa Garozzo, Alfina Coco, Mario La Rosa

Department of Pediatrics, Bronchopneumoallergology and Cystic Fibrosis Unit, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.

DOI: 10.4236/health.2013.52A041                

Abstract

Today the most important challenge facing the pediatrician is the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases. With this regard, pediatricians play a key role in the management of these conditions. The closeness with the family, the knowledge of the clinical case and the care continuity allow the pediatrician to acquire a position of director of every case. When pathological events have a chronic feature, suddenly the quality of life of the whole family changes. For this reason the first communication of chronic disease is very important and the task of the pediatrician should be to provide a positive message to help the family in facing the difficulty of this new challenge. The bronchial asthma is the most common chronic disease worldwide. The incidence, the prevalence, and the mortality of the disease have increased in children over the past decades. These trends are particularly marked above all in preschool children. The success reached by Pediatricians is closely related to the compliance and the implementation of the therapy followed by the little patient and his family. With this regard authors, in this review, focus on the illustration of several strategies, based on the pediatrician’ skills and medicine documents, that can be used for the improvement of communication among pedia- trician-family and child, never forgetting the hu- man aspect of the same doctor, that should con- ciliate with the scientific knowledge in the taking care of a specific chronic disease.

Keywords

Cross-Talk; Bronchial Asthma; Children

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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