Supported self-care for children and adolescents with chronic disease and their families

Objective: analyze the scientific production between 2006 and 2015 on strategies for supported self-care by children and adolescents with chronic disease and their families. Method: integrative review of the literature conducted July and August 2016 in the databases: BDENF, LILACS, IBECS, ADOLEC, MEDLINE/PubMed and SCIELO. The 27 selected studies were analyzed and categorized into the five pillars of supported self-care: evaluation, counseling, agreement, care and accompaniment. Results: only two studies covered all five pillars, evaluation was considered most, but accompaniment was essential for adherence to the therapeutics of the goal plan. There was a prevalence of actions to evaluate the emotional state of the child/adolescent/family and technological interventions to empower the individual in self-care. Final considerations: these actions are concentrated in countries with health systems directed to the health needs of people with chronic disease. In Brazil, this is still incipient, since the actions are focused on exacerbation. Descriptors: Child; Adolescent; Family; Chronic Disease; Self-Care. RESUMO Objetivo: analisar a produção científica entre 2006 e 2015 sobre estratégias para o autocuidado apoiado de crianças e adolescentes com doenças crônicas e suas famílias. Método: revisão integrativa da literatura realizada entre julho e agosto de 2016 nas bases de dados: BDENF, LILACS, IBECS, ADOLEC, MEDLINE/PubMed e SCIELO. Os 27 estudos selecionados foram analisados e categorizados nos cinco pilares do autocuidado apoiado: avaliação, aconselhamento, acordo, assistência e acompanhamento. Resultados: apenas dois estudos abarcaram os cinco pilares, sendo o mais evidenciado a avaliação, porém o acompanhamento se mostrou imprescindível para adesão às terapêuticas do plano de metas. Prevaleceram as ações, avaliação do estado emocional da criança/adolescente/família e intervenções tecnológicas para empoderar o indivíduo no autocuidado. Considerações finais: as referidas ações estão concentradas em países com sistemas de saúde direcionados às necessidades de saúde de pessoas com doenças crônicas. No Brasil, isso ainda é incipiente, pois as ações estão centradas em agudizações. Descritores: Criança; Adolescente; Família; Doença Crônica; Autocuidado. RESUMEN Objetivo: analizar la producción científica entre 2006 y 2015 sobre estrategias para el auto cuidado apoyado de niños y adolescentes con enfermedades crónicas y sus familias. Método: revisión integradora de la literatura realizada entre julio y agosto de 2016 en las bases de datos: BDENF, LILACS, IBECS, ADOLEC, MEDLINE/PubMed y SCIELO. Los 27 estudios seleccionados fueron analizados y categorizados en los cinco pilares del auto cuidado apoyado: evaluación, asesoramiento, acuerdo, asistencia y acompañamiento. Resultados: apenas dos estudios abarcaron los cinco pilares, siendo lo más evidenciado la evaluación, sin embargo el acompañamiento se mostró imprescindible para adhesión a las terapéuticas del plan de metas. Han prevalecido las acciones, evaluaciones del estado emocional del niño/adolescente/familia e intervenciones tecnológicas para empoderar el individuo en el auto cuidado. Consideraciones finales: las referidas acciones están concentradas en países Supported self-care for children and adolescents with chronic disease and their families Autocuidado apoiado a crianças e adolescentes com doenças crônicas e suas famílias Auto cuidado apoyado a niños y adolescentes con enfermedades crónicas y sus familias REVIEW


INTRODUCTION
Supported self-care is a therapeutic design construction modality.It arose from a methodology instituted in the late 1980s for smokers by the National Cancer Institute, and is based on five pillars: assessment, counseling, agreement, care and follow-up, with the purpose of supporting the patient in the process of (re)constructing their own health (1)(2) .
In the context of chronic disease, this strategy can be used from suspicion to diagnosis, and can be used throughout the life of the sick individual, with interventions to a greater or lesser frequency, according to their state.Taking into account the nature of these health conditions, which "present a gradual onset, with a long or uncertain duration, generally presenting multiple causes and the treatment for which involves lifestyle changes, in a process of continuous care that usually does not lead to cure" (3) The pillars offer an effective and less costly measure for health institutions, since it enables immediate action by the health professional.
In practice, health services do not value the specificities of each individual and base their work process on passive attitudes of the professionals through complaint-consultation and are stimulated by studies carried out by researchers and clinical specialists who do not facilitate or incorporate the participation of the user and their family in the care necessary to control the disease (4) .
It is in this context that health care networks have been advocated as a means to incorporate the collective intelligence of patients, family members, physicians and researchers thereby creating a system that explores their motivations and abilities, since they are also stakeholders in this process.In this manner they can devote time to this task and accelerate the discovery of knowledge (4) , as well as implement beneficial programs for effective care.
A model of health care that addresses actions under this perspective is the "Chronic Care Model" (CCM), with supported self-care as its fifth structuring element.This model proposes an approach that encourages health professionals to empower individuals with chronic disease to self-manage their illness process, making them protagonists of care through coresponsibility among all involved (1) .This can be done through methods that promote changes in behavior, such as operating groups; assessment of current behavior and degree of interest and confidence in the change; motivational interviews; and courses offered by health professionals covering the self-care of specific diseases (1)(2) .
The implementation of strategies, in this perspective, implies that the professional is able to define roles and assignments of each individual, monitor and follow the users, manage each case in a personalized way and introduce new activities such as: shared group, continuous, peer and distance care.This practice should be developed through the setting of goals and joint care plans, assessing the health status of users, placing the individual at the center of the process, and organizing health and community resources to provide support (1) .When applying this concept to children and adolescents with chronic illness, it is understood that this capacity for the development of competencies and skills for care management must gradually evolve together with the sick individual.In addition, it is important that the family, health professionals and school as a whole are involved in order to provide the necessary support to establish responsibilities for management of the disease.Thus, the horizontal view allows an alignment among users, health professionals, researchers and families and enhances the performance expectations of actions aimed at self-care, as well as stimulating the joint elaboration of solutions (4) .
In the context of the pediatric age group, it is possible to valorize the use of a motivational process as a way of guiding professionals to recognize and lead the user to changes (2) , since even children/adolescents and their families are aware of the need to modify certain habits, however this is not always put into practice (5) .With the child, support for self-care can be provided in two main areas: family and school (6) .On the other hand, adolescents are also influenced by their peers and online health information, since electronic media are more accessible, they tend to broaden health care and education (7) .
The adoption of a pediatric model of support for self-management of the disease has the potential to improve the individual's health conditions; a factor that favors a reduction in the use of more complex services, as well as costs and burnout of the caregiver (8) .In view of the above, the importance of using appropriate methods for the empowerment of the child/adolescent with chronic illness and their family in the self-care is emphasized.In this context, the following question has emerged: What strategies have been used for supported self-care for children/adolescents with chronic diseases and their families?Thus, the objective of this study was to analyze the scientific production between 2006 and 2015 on strategies for supported self-care for children/adolescents with chronic disease and their families.

METHOD
An integrative literature review was carried out, this is characterized as a type of review that encompasses research conducted rigorously according to different methodologies, allowing the synthesis of findings (9) .For this study, five stages were undertaken: identification of the theme and selection of the hypothesis or research question for elaboration of the integrative review; establishing criteria for inclusion and exclusion of studies/sampling or literature search; definition of the information to be extracted from the selected studies/categorization of the studies; evaluation of studies included in the integrative review; and interpretation of the results (10) .
The first step was guided by the following question: What have been the strategies used by health professionals for supported self-care in children/adolescents with chronic disease and their families?
The search was conducted between July and August 2016, and the terms used were the Health Sciences Descriptors (DeCS) in Portuguese and Spanish, respectively: pediatria/ pediatría; doença crônica; autocuidado [pediatrics; chronic disease; self-care].Since some databases did not recognize these languages, we used the English language MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) terms: pediatric, chronic disease and self-management.The three terms of each language were combined with the "AND" Boolean connector.The research was carried out in two portals and four databases: BDENF/ BIREME) [Nursing Database], LILACS/BIREME [Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences], IBECS [Spanish Bibliographical Index of Health Sciences] and Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO), ADOLEC in three languages; and MEDLINE/Pubmed in English only.To select the articles the following inclusion criteria were established: presence of some strategy to support the self-care of children/adolescents with chronic diseases and/or their families; complete article available in electronic form, via proxy server of the Federal University of Paraíba; classified as original article, case study, experience report; published between 2006 and 2015; and available in Portuguese, English or Spanish.The exclusion criteria were: editorials; letters to the editor; articles of reflection; reviews; duplicates; and those that included strategies aimed for individuals over 19 years, given that the study considers patients that are adolescents or younger (11) .
Two researchers performed the search independently and concomitantly, using the same criteria for the selection of studies and data extraction.Both met at the end of these steps to reach a consensus on the selection and extraction of the data.Based on the association of the descriptors, 107 articles were found, the titles and summaries of which were exhaustively scrutinized in order to verify if they met the inclusion/exclusion criteria.After this stage, 60 articles that met the above mentioned criteria were then read in full and 27 articles were selected to compose the study sample, as shown in Table 1.
The exclusion of studies was based on the following factors: not addressing the research question (40 in MEDLINE); report (01 in MEDLINE); duplicate (02 in SCIELO); study on adults (12 in MEDLINE) or age group not defined (1 in MEDLINE); not addressing chronic disease (03 in MEDLINE); review (01 in LILACS, 01 in IBECS and 19 in MEDLINE).
Data analysis followed the guidelines of thematic analysis (12) which is based on the steps of pre-analysis, material exploration or codification and treatment of the results obtained/interpretation.Each article was read several times, and the strategies identified were organized into at least one of the five pillars of the "Cinco As" [Five As] methodology (evaluation, counseling, agreement, care and accompaniment), emphasizing supported self-care.These procedures are important because of the need to evaluate the relationship between the individual/family and the health conditions, to provide guidance on means of change that can improve this relationship.Next, it is necessary to reach an agreement with the user/family regarding the best way to implement these changes, until the care is achieved and the subsequent follow-up of the goals established throughout the strategy (1) .

RESULTS
The articles selected in the study considered all the years included in the research, however, 21 (77.8%) were published between 2010 and 2015.The characteristics of these studies are shown in Chart 1.

Evaluation
To evaluate the knowledge of the child/adolescent and/or family about the health condition (18)(19)(20) Question the child/adolescent and/or his/her family about their strategies for self-care (19,21) Ask the child/adolescent and/or family what are the barriers to self-care (21)(22)(23) To assess the importance and degree of confidence of the child/ adolescent and/or family for self-care (19) To evaluate the child/adolescent and/or family adherence in activities present in the self-care plan (17,(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29) To evaluate the capacity of the patients and/or family to perform an intervention (14,19,30) To determine the strategies used by the child/adolescent with chronic disease for rehabilitation/coping (21,31) To assess the emotional state (depression, mood, anxiety, etc.) of the child/adolescent and/or the family, which may influence self-care actions (13,17,23,30,(32)(33) To evaluate the process of health care transition (HCT) from pediatric to adult-centered health care delivery systems (16,18,21,(34)(35) Counseling Inform the child/adolescent and/or family about the symptoms of the disease and/or therapeutic measures (17,27,36) , while recognizing the cultural uniqueness (19) Inform the child/adolescent and/or family that behavioral changes are as important as taking medications (20) To report the evidence on behavioral changes in health (17) Sharing evidence-based clinical guidelines to encourage the child/adolescent and/or family to participate in treatment (17,35) Provide educational material on self-management (16,20,27,(36)(37) Include motivational strategies (15) Agreement Provide possible options for defining the goal of self-care (16)(17)21) Encourage the child/adolescent to seek the help of relatives and friends for goal setting (17) Establish shared strategies for reaching the defined goal (17) Care Refer the child/adolescent and/or family to a group or self-care course (self-management) (27) Identify possible resources in the family and community that can support self-care (15) Establish an intervention program, with weekly sessions, with the aim of improving the knowledge of the child/adolescent and/or the family and involving them in self-care (27,(37)(38) Implement a self-care intervention centered on the patient and/ or his/her family (20,27,38) Promoting multi-professional teamwork (20,38) Interventions using technological resources, such as telemedicine, virtual reality and computer programs, in various aspects of rehabilitation (4,(16)(17)21,33,(36)(37) Chart 2

Chart 1 (concluded)
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Evaluation
Evaluation is the first pillar of supported self-care and the basis for the development of the subsequent four pillars.Several studies have investigated this activity (13)(14)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35) . One of he aspects discussed in the research was to determine whether activities for self-care management are adhered to along with therapies and skills already developed by health professionals (17,(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29) .Thus, studies in pediatrics have demonstrated a significant association between nonadherence and the frequency of medication use; since medications that needed to be taken more frequently during the day were subject to higher rates of nonadherence (24,28) , this together with the number of tablets ingested per dose (28) .Although the data demonstrate a significant lack of adherence to medication, this problem may not be perceived by children/ adolescents and represents a timely situation for the intervention of health professionals (28) .Thus, it is fundamental to evaluate the emotional state (depression, mood, anxiety, etc.) of the child/adolescent and/or family, as it may influence self-care actions (13,17,23,30,(32)(33) .This influence on children/adolescents can be seen chronic pain, for example, since it is a factor that can effect and cause limitations in the performance of activities, especially if the self-care measures are also based on the adoption of physical activities or the establishment of routines (23) .
Other studies have indicated that social class and educational level of the family were related to self-care habits (22,26) .Corroborating these findings, the literature showed that approximately 25% of adolescents from parents with low educational level also presented a deficit in the capacity to manage their health, as opposed to those who had parents with completed secondary education, for which there was a two-fold increase in the probability of adequate health literacy.Limitations in parents' education may affect their knowledge about health, adherence to treatment, understanding and following medical instructions, as well as the transition from pediatric to adult care (18) .
Regarding the transition of care, a "Transition-Q" scale has been created, this tool is used to evaluate the patient's ability to be transferred to adult care.The instrument asks the individual if he is able to answer questions by a doctor or nurse, if he helps in making decisions about his health, is responsible for managing the taking of his medication, if he speaks to or enters in contact with a physician or nurse when health problems arise, if he himself can communicate, instead of his parents, and if he is able to summarize his medical history when requested, in addition to other considerations (34) .This assessment enables both the health professionals and patient to obtain an overview of how ready the latter is to be transferred to an adult-centered care service.
Another relevant aspect is that, in general, people living with chronic disease remain in this situation for the remainder of their lives.Thus, in order to effectively monitor the family it is important that the health professional is aware of the strategies used by the child/adolescent and also by their regular caregivers, given that the latter influence their actions (14) .This concern in assessing what is done and how, promotes counseling skills.
Authors have shown that most health care providers do not provide guidance on how to use or evaluate the use of inhalers or peak flow meters by the child during pediatric asthma consultations.A study concluded that only 8.1% of children performed all steps to use these devices correctly (14) .This accountability for the use of treatment material should not be exclusive to the family or the child but rather a two-way health professional-family/ child process for effective management of asthma.In addition, it is not uncommon to search for alternative and complementary medicine (ACM) strategies for individuals living with chronic disease, mainly under the influence of parents, who expressed an interest in obtaining more information from health professionals about the efficacy and safety of these practices (31) .
Still regarding the information received, it was found that the parents' perception of their abilities to perform and/or assist in the necessary care of the children/adolescents is influenced by the information received from the health team (30) .When their children have a longer diagnosis time, parents feel more experienced and prepared to deal with the demands of care imposed by the disease (25) .
In view of the above, if the assessment of health needs is carried out in full, verifying the entire process involved in discovering the management, barriers, skills, abilities and needs of the individual with chronic illness and his/her family, the evaluation pillar will become a really firm basis for the implementation of the other phases of this therapeutic methodology.

Counseling
Counseling is an intervention that the professional can and should carry out in order to reinforce information about each specific situation and to establish help in the development of care skills, both in chronic and non-chronic conditions (1) .To this end, professionals should use material that provides information on health and disease management for both the family and patient.In this sense, a study validated 15 illustrations about asthma with children/adolescents and their parents, with the intention of incorporating these into educational material on health Accompaniment Distance monitoring (by phone or mail) of the self-care plan (17,27,33,37) Helping the person to use important community resources in his/her self-care (15) Groups of pairs with professional support (16)(17)21,27,38) Accompany the child/adolescent and/or the family through questionnaires that assess activities of daily living, self-care and/ or quality of life in a continuous form (33) Analyzing the achievement of goals in conjunction with the patient (33) Implement a self-care intervention centered on the patient and/ or his/her family (17,20,38) Interventions using technological resources to empower the individual in self-care actions (4,(16)(17)21,33,(36)(37) Source: Adapted from Morais HCC, Gonzaga NC, Aquino PS, Araújo TL, 2015 (39) .
Chart 2 (concluded) instructions and self-management skills in the long term.The authors also provided counseling sessions with a pharmacist on drug treatments in order to improve disease management (20) .
Between 2009 and 2010, a multicenter study was conducted in the Netherlands, the USA and Canada where lectures were given in outpatient clinics to advise clinical caregivers on the transition from pediatric to adult-centered care.The authors pointed out that there are major gaps in the skills needed for self-management of 18-year-old adolescents, since many are living far from their parents because they are attending college or are transferred to adult health care, solely on account of their age.The lectures resulted in an increased awareness of these professionals on the subject, without imposing preestablished behavior to make the decision whether to or not to transfer users with this profile (35) .
Regarding this age group, a survey was carried out on the implementation of a "Youth KIT" -the term is an abbreviation of Keeping It Together for Youth.This tool allows the establishment of goals -definition, identification of necessary measures and reflection on the achievement of objectives -through future planning and evaluation of the adolescent's ability to perform tasks in nine domains of life: personal, school, medical and health, social, personal care and life skills, drug management, commitments and other information.One of the positive points for the participants was the usefulness of the strategy to work towards achieving goals, while one of the negative points was the lengthiness of the material, which comprised several pages, thereby discouraging its completion and consultation (16) .
In the face of these actions, it is understood that efforts are still needed both to support children/adolescents and their families and the professionals who care for them.Motivational interviewing as an effective counseling technique and engagement of the clinical team in advocating for changes in public policy through publication of articles, discussion in community forums or at other levels (15) may represent programs that will enable success in health practices in childhood and adolescence faced with chronic disease.
Finally, counseling goes far beyond prescribing medications or interventions; it consists of sensitizing the individual and his family to what is best suited to their reality and how they can mobilize themselves to achieve improvements.

Agreement
Agreement is a way to involve and include both patient and family in setting and monitoring goals.In this case, researchers enabled the active participation of parents of children with asthma, through a computational strategy called "Asthma manager", which allows personalization of the manager by adding activities to a pre-established list, in addition to determining the time for fulfillment of the goal and outcome.For this, there is a tab: "My Goals for a better life with asthma", with the objective of training those involved to select and achieve goals based on their reality.Thus, a motivational message is given for each selected objective, with links to relevant contents and upon completing the activity they can evaluate their progress on a fortnightly basis (17) .
Self-monitoring is an action that aims at meaningful engagement of individuals.This function allows the self-control of symptoms and favors communication with health professionals.Thus, actions based on health needs identified in focus groups with adolescents were valued for self-management of pain in Canada.Based on the results, an application called "iCanCope with Pain", to be used in smartphones and Internet platforms, was created, which allows aspects such as pain, sleep, mood, physical activity and social activity to be evaluated by the users themselves and thereby define achievable goals together with help from health professionals (21) .
Agreement is the principle that best expresses the essence of supported self-care, since it values the individual role of the person facing chronic illness in the management of their own health.Knowledge gaps have been found in the literature, since the actions linked to this pillar are still numerically scarce.Therefore, it is important to reflect on the way in which health professionals have developed their practices in relation to children and adolescents in this situation and on how much prescriptive and imposing attitudes are still the basis of their formative process.

Care
With regard to the care pillar, the implementation of a selfcare intervention centered on the individual and/or his/her family is fundamental.An example of this occurred with a cohort of children/adolescents living with juvenile dermatomyositis, where a 12-week supervised physical training program was established to improve the quality of life among this population (38) .
Another significant action in care refers to the psychosocial intervention for young people with persistent physical complaints and anxiety disorders, called Treatment of Anxiety and Physical Symptoms (TAPS).Individual sessions over a 10-week period were performed by identifying contexts in which symptoms occurred.From then on, techniques of relaxation, cognitive restructuring and exercises of exposure to anxiety inducing situations were promoted so that factors related to physical pain were identified.After treatment was completed, care was continued through reinforcements conducted by clinical psychologists twice per month (13) .
The use of technological resources to care for people living with chronic diseases was used by several researchers (4,(16)(17)21,33,(36)(37) . Access to a roperly updated portal can encourage some individuals to take an active role in learning more about their illness by reading news and extending their search to other sites.In this type of intervention, attention should be paid to the fact that some people may consider themselves to be effectively educated to the point of skipping routine appointments.It is important to seek a balance between the information provided face-to-face and via the Web (36) .In addition, this reality of developed countries may be limited in poorer countries due to the unavailability of Internet access for the majority of the population.
When internet access is limited, an alternative could be the implementation of a face-to-face or telephone monitoring program.As an example, a pilot study was developed in a pediatric clinic for adolescents (14 to 18 years), in which those who had already been treated and were involved in some therapy became monitors of other adolescents attending the clinic for the same chronic disease.Thus, activities were developed for self-management of pain; information on the disease and related behavior; conducted training to deal with questions about thoughts and feelings, the nature of recommended treatments, which made it possible for them to discuss their pain condition with someone who has experienced this problem; participants were also encouraged to actively participate in care management skills (27) .In this type of strategy, multi-professional assistance can significantly help with decision making support (19) .
In view of the aforementioned, it is observed that assistance to individuals with chronic disease can be performed both during routine consultations and through online strategies.However, health professionals have the responsibility to recognize that children/adolescents and their families deserve adequate attention both in the exacerbations of the chronic disease and in the period of its stability, and for each of these phases appropriate interventions will be required.

Accompaniment
Transitional clinics are resources that have been used in the United States for the follow-up of adolescents with chronic disease until they attend adult care services (16,(34)(35) .With regard to this situation, general interventions, which are not specific to any chronic disease (16,34) , can reduce costs for health services and also favor the efficiency of this transfer process, considering that in this age group the problems experienced are common to several individuals, regardless of the chronic illness they are facing.
One of the studies used an online chat strategy -"Pretransfer".This is an important method of exchanging information among adolescents.The operation took place with access four nights a week, during which it was possible to either establish an individual conversation with the monitor (health professional) or in a group with their peers, posting messages and sending e-mails.In general, the participants preferred a private conversation with the health professional.It was found that this online support helped them to discover new ideas to solve their health problems.The results of this study demonstrated that the adolescents obtained self-care support for issues of transition care, university preparation, prioritization, self-understanding and learning to take responsibility for managing their own health (16) .To support individuals in these types of web-based interventions, one can use login monitoring, as demonstrated in a survey in which participants who failed to enter the site for two consecutive weeks were sent reminders by phone or e-mail (37) .
Another form of accompaniment for children and adolescents is the Collaborative Chronic Care Network (C3Ns), which, with the support of the Instituto Nacional de Diabetes e Doenças Digestivas e Renais [National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases], has been working to transform the results of care for individuals through collaboration among physicians, researchers, individuals with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis and their relatives.This operational platform is a network of social constructs that involves a series of cultural changes: visualization of health care as shared work; search and use of knowledge of all those involved, building a sense of solidarity, and promoting the notion that individuals can make a difference (4) .
In view of the evidence, accompaniment through a structured transition program promotes more changes in self-management of the disease among adolescents than informal health education by professionals (35) .Further studies are needed to assess the best way to promote health education for children and adolescents, as well as their families and/or caregivers.
Accompaniment, when performed by pairs or family caregivers, can provide better results based on the reality of each individual.Authors have reported that in emergency situations (abuse, suicidal thoughts, etc.) it was possible to manage these cases by resorting to other adolescents living with the same disease to offer accompaniment by phone, while under the supervision of professionals (27) .
Peer group therapies are alternatives used to improve adherence to care plan interventions and can be amply positive in accompaniment.In addition, analysis of disease management behavior during the transition from pediatrics to adult health care was critical for researchers who sought to identify possible intervention points and necessary changes.

Study limitations
In the data collection process, some databases could not be included due to the maintenance of the site, which may have contributed to the non-inclusion of research that would have corresponded to the subject of study.In addition, some international articles were not included due to their cost and financial limitations.

Contribution to public health and Nursing
This compilation of studies has contributed to the dissemination of knowledge regarding supported self-care.This will enable changes in the practice of care for individuals with chronic diseases in order to stimulate actions in line with the health needs arising from the epidemiological profile of such disease.For the nurse, access to information on interventions that allow an empowerment of children and adolescents with chronic disease, together with their families, can promote the implementation of actions based on the building of bonds and awareness of mutual responsibility in the effective accompaniment of these individuals.

FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
This study aimed to analyze the scientific production published between 2006 and 2015 on supported self-care strategies for children/adolescents with chronic disease and their families.It was found that most research on self-care support has been carried out in the USA and in health care settings at secondary and tertiary levels.It is emphasized that there was only one Brazilian study, however its full version was published in a foreign language.
Studies using electronic media have achieved significant results in supporting care, especially adolescents, allied to telephone communication and maintained the social interaction that could be lost through the use of the Web.The integration between technology and education (media and health platforms) has enabled self-management of several chronic diseases.However, it is necessary to train health professionals to use this type of tool.
The results suggest that interventions performed by health professionals may be more effective for individuals who have already been living with chronic diseases than those who are still trying to deal with the diagnosis.Therefore, although protocols containing specific guidelines do not guarantee effective care, these are instruments with potential to guide the care process.Therefore, the accompaniment pillar is essential to underscore the importance of adherence to the therapies necessary in the plan of objectives.
Finally, it should be pointed out that the health actions reported in this review are still concentrated in countries that have already established health systems for the care of people living with chronic disease, such as the USA and Canada.Nevertheless, even though interventions have been considered and researched that improve the daily life of children and adolescents with chronic disease, not all pillars of supported self-care have been fully valued; such as agreement, which was little evidenced in the literature.Supporting the management of self-care among these individuals is a process intrinsic to reaching an agreement with them based on their perspectives, in order to sensitize them to the construction of accountability and motivation in the establishment of this change.In the Brazilian reality, the concept based on this logic is still incipient, considering that we live under the optics of a health system that values care for acute problems, even with an epidemiological reality that is not in keeping with that which is most prioritized.Therefore, the relevance is evident of the insertion of self-management and support strategies for the self-care of children/adolescents with chronic disease and their families in the field of public health.This offers an alternative to the lack of effective treatment options to control them, while significantly reducing costs in therapeutic measures that are more complex and costly.

Table 1 -
Distribution of the references found, excluded and selected, Brazil, 2016 mentioned interventions corresponding to all five pillars of supported self-care.The interventions for children and adolescents and their families found in the literature are characterized in Chart 2.