Table 1.

Adaption of Self-Care Model

Self-care	Definitiona	Adaptation for Child/Family	Examples of Self-care in Action
Self-care	Process of maintaining health through health promoting practices and managing illness	Family management to maintain health promoting practices and managing illness; believes that the child will be or is capable and expects the child to care for self in the future	Transition from parental agency and family management to child agency and self-care
Self-care maintenance	Behaviors performed to improve well-being, preserve health, or to maintain physical and emotional stability	Behaviors performed by the child and/or family to improve well-being, preserve health, or to maintain physical and emotional stability	Daily flossing and brushing teeth. Reduced sugar intake. Biannual checkups
Self-care monitoring	Process of routine, vigilant body monitoring, surveillance, or “body listening”	Process of routine, vigilant body monitoring, surveillance, or “body listening” by the child and family	Awareness of tooth and gum status, sensitivity to hot/cold, bleeding, pain, need to brush teeth after eating and food sticks to your teeth or between
Self-care management	Involves evaluation of changes in physical and emotional signs and symptoms to determine if action is needed	The evaluation of changes in physical and emotional signs and symptoms by the child and/or family to determine if action is needed	Evaluation of tooth/gum pain and deciding to call the dentist, brush or floss as needed in addition to twice a day

^aDefinitions from Riegel et al^{15(pp195–196)}