Psychological Aspects in Treatment of Children with Cystic Fibrosis

For the purpose of the finding the new focus areas for helping children with cystic fibrosis there was held a study of psychological features of patients (aged 7 to 18). According to the physical and psychological condition of the children, they were divided into two groups: 1st with the stable course of the disease and relatively good psychological condition (47.1%); 2nd with the exacerbation of CF and in a heavy emotional state (52.9%). Main problems of psychological and educational assistance were found. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).