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Chronic disease self-management in young people — branching viva
Branching viva on chronic-disease self-management: adherence assessment, transition readiness, motivational interviewing, the acute non-adherence crisis, and the transfer cliff.
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RACP General PaediatricsRACP DCEMRCPCH ClinicalRCPSC Pediatrics
Prompt
You are the paediatric registrar in an adolescent clinic. The examiner moves from the principles of self-management to objective adherence assessment, a motivational-interviewing encounter, an acute non-adherence crisis, and the transition transfer cliff.
Stem
The examiner will test whether you can assess and support a young person's self-management under pressure. [2] [1]
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