[Compliance among adolescents with a chronic illness: review].
The continual progress in medicine has increased patient life expectation. However, treatments for chronic diseases are often consequential. This leads to problems of patient compliance, most particularly in teenage patients. Depression is frequently observed in persons affected by a chronic illness. These diseases can cause despair, which contributes to the risk of suicide. This article investigates the various notional and explanatory approaches to compliance. The literature review was based on the CAIRN, Medline, and EBSCOhost databases. The period investigated extended from 1999 to 2009. The keywords used were "adhésion thérapeutique", "observance", "compliance", "adolescence", "chronic illness", and "depression". Three axes stand out from this review: (1) the theoretical definition of compliance, (2) the frequency of depressive disorders among adolescents affected by a chronic illness, (3) the different ways to interpret compliance. We introduce and discuss the contents of each of these axes and discuss how they could orient research on the compliance of adolescents with a chronic illness.
Laboratoire PsyNCA, université de Rouen, rue Lavoisier, 76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan cedex, France.
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D000293:Adolescent; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D010349:Patient Compliance