Cerebral Palsy: Pediatric Patient- and Family-Centered Care and Clinical Research
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Neurology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 810
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cerebral palsy(CP) is the most common physical disability that originates in childhood and affects the lifespan; it is NOT a terminal illness and cannot be treated as such. To change paradigms of CP care from addressing a single problem at one point in time towards managing a chronic condition over a lifetime trajectory, we need to rethink care delivery systems and research design. Beyond their role in the ICF, environment and personal factors must become critical components of systems change processes, habilitative technologies and strategies. Managing CP over the lifespan starts in childhood, with a goal of stakeholder health and empowerment.
We invite you to contribute to this Special Issue, which aims to collate the latest evidence on clinical care, implementation science and research, for infants, children, and adolescents with cerebral palsy with a focus on "stakeholder-centered interventions and health promotion". Although the primary focus is on interventions for cerebral palsy, studies that include solutions to knowledge translation problems, especially in low resource areas, are invited. The manuscripts may include any format (original research, systematic reviews, implementation science and quality improvement) that may contribute to the further development of feasible and generalizable change drivers for people with cerebral palsy and their families across the first 21 years.
Dr. Nathalie Maitre
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cerebral palsy
- physical disability
- preterm infants
- interventions
- guidelines
- implementation
- caregiver-child interaction
- stakeholder engagement
- care transitions
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