Autocuidado de Enfermedades Crónicas en pacientes de Salud Mental

Abstract

The approach to chronic diseases, especially those that imply changes in life habits (as happens, for example, in Diabetes Mellitus or Arterial Hypertension) is a complicated task and becomes more difficult when we talk about these changes in patients with mental disorders. With regard to a clinical case in which healthy lifestyle habits are worked on by providing diabetes education, different theoretical approaches are presented to resolve the case starting with the middle-range theory of Self-Care of Chronic Illness and continuing with a brief summary and analysis of the theories and models with greater applicability in psychiatric nursing.