Bridging the Needs of Adolescent Diabetes Care During COVID-19: A Nurse-Led Telehealth Initiative

Amidst the unprecedented global pandemic of COVID-19, attending to the needs of adolescents with diabetes mellitus became more challenging. They faced the uncertainty of access to care and the attendant problems of a lockdown. We present the nurse-led telehealth initiative for adolescents with diabe...

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Autores principales: Lim, Soo Ting, Yap, Fabian, Chin, Xinyi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. 2020
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Clinical Observations
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7833853/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32798101
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2020.07.012
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description Amidst the unprecedented global pandemic of COVID-19, attending to the needs of adolescents with diabetes mellitus became more challenging. They faced the uncertainty of access to care and the attendant problems of a lockdown. We present the nurse-led telehealth initiative for adolescents with diabetes mellitus, leveraging on existing infrastructure and resources with the aim of addressing the anticipated challenges that many of the adolescents might face. The initiative was well received among those who participated, and there were no significant adverse effects noted.
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spelling pubmed-78338532021-01-26 Bridging the Needs of Adolescent Diabetes Care During COVID-19: A Nurse-Led Telehealth Initiative Lim, Soo Ting Yap, Fabian Chin, Xinyi J Adolesc Health Clinical Observations Amidst the unprecedented global pandemic of COVID-19, attending to the needs of adolescents with diabetes mellitus became more challenging. They faced the uncertainty of access to care and the attendant problems of a lockdown. We present the nurse-led telehealth initiative for adolescents with diabetes mellitus, leveraging on existing infrastructure and resources with the aim of addressing the anticipated challenges that many of the adolescents might face. The initiative was well received among those who participated, and there were no significant adverse effects noted. Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. 2020-10 2020-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7833853/ /pubmed/32798101 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2020.07.012 Text en © 2020 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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