[Therapeutic education and cystic fibrosis]

Therapeutic education is defined as all the tools taught to patients with the aim of improving their compliance to treatments. In a chronic disease, such as cystic fibrosis, this education should be done during the first months of child's life with the collaboration of parents and then gradually given to children from the age of 6 until they are autonomous in the management of their treatment during adolescence. The tools used for therapeutic education should be playful, varied and adapted to the child's development, while respecting a standard for competences. In this article, we will define the main approaches of therapeutic education in patients with cystic fibrosis.