Self-Management

• Self-care, management of one’s condition, including medication and treatment management, communicating with physicians, and caring for oneself through exercise and diet;

• Maintaining, changing, and creating new meaningful behaviors and roles, engaging in life activities, including work and leisure activities, and maintaining social relationships; and

• Coping emotionally with the feelings associated with living with illness, and realizing and developing a new sense of future (Corbin and Strauss, 1988)