Self-Management and Relationships: Perspectives of Young Adults With Chronic Conditions and Their Peers.

ABSTRACT: Because their disease is largely managed in the private environment, people with chronic conditions perform "chronic homework." The environment with which self-management is coordinated forms a kind of "chronic care infrastructure" in dealing with the disease and, in the case of young adults with chronic conditions (YACCs), is essentially formed by peers. The article investigates how YACCs handle their illness in the context of their peer relationships and how peers see their own role in the context of the YACCs' self-management. What do chronic homework and chronic care infrastructures look like, if the chronic conditions concern young adults in comparatively unstable and non-committal relationships with their peers? Episodic interviews were conducted with 60 YACCs (with type 1 diabetes,

SUBMITTER: Flick U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12117129 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature