"Self Care" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Performance of activities or tasks traditionally performed by professional health care providers. The concept includes care of oneself or one's family and friends.
| Descriptor ID |
D012648
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.900 N02.421.784.680
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2009 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 2010 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 2011 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| 2012 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2013 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2014 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
| 2018 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Self Care" by people in Profiles.
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Exploring Well-Being: Resilience, Stress, and Self-Care in Occupational Therapy Practitioners and Students. OTJR (Thorofare N J). 2023 04; 43(2):159-169.
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Patient-centered mobile health technology intervention to improve self-care in patients with chronic heart failure: Protocol for a feasibility randomized controlled trial. Contemp Clin Trials. 2021 07; 106:106433.
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Implementation Lessons From a Randomized Trial Integrating Community Asthma Education for Children. J Ambul Care Manage. 2020 Apr-Jun; 43(2):125-135.
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'Walk a mile in my shoes:' African American caregiver perceptions of caregiving and self-care. Ethn Health. 2022 02; 27(2):435-452.
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Distress and self-care among chaplains working in palliative care. Palliat Support Care. 2019 10; 17(5):542-549.
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Assessment of Self-Management Treatment Needs Among COPD Helpline Callers. COPD. 2019 02; 16(1):82-88.
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Self-care interventions for adults with heart failure: A systematic review and meta-analysis protocol. J Adv Nurs. 2019 Mar; 75(3):676-682.
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The Push and Pull of Self-Managing Mild COPD: An Evaluation of Participant Experiences of a Nurse-Led Telephone Health Coaching Intervention. Qual Health Res. 2019 04; 29(5):658-671.
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Making COPD Self-Management Education Work. Respir Care. 2018 07; 63(7):934-935.
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Addressing asthma and obesity in children with community health workers: proof-of-concept intervention development. BMC Pediatr. 2016 12 01; 16(1):198.