Healthcare 2022, 10, 2034. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10102034 www.mdpi.com/journal/healthcare Review Reducing Psychological Impacts on Children with Chronic Disease via Family Empowerment: A Scoping Review Ai Mardhiyah 1,2, *, Santhna Letcmi Panduragan 3 and Henny Suzana Mediani 2 1 Faculty of Health Science, Lincoln University College, Kota Bharu 15200, Malaysia 2 Department of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Padjadjaran, Bandung 40132, Indonesia 3 Faculty of Nursing, Lincoln University College, Kota Bharu 15200, Malaysia * Correspondence: ai.mardhiyah@unpad.ac.id; Tel.: +60-3-7806-3478 Abstract: Chronic diseases cause physical and psychological impacts on sufferers. In dealing with illness, the family is not involved in the treatment of chronic diseases. Children also do not receive support from their families in dealing with their illness. Family empowerment is an important thing to implement in treating children with chronic diseases. The purpose of this study was to explore family empowerment interventions as potential methods to reduce the impact of chronic disease. This study used the scoping review method. A literature review was conducted via CINAHL, Pub- Med, and ProQuest databases. The keywords used in English were “family empowerment OR fam- ily center empowerment” AND “child OR children” AND “chronic disease”. The criteria for articles in this study were full text, free access, randomized control trial or quasi-experiment research de- sign, English language, population and samples of chronic disease, and the publication period of the last 10 years (2013–2022). We found nine articles that used a family empowerment intervention in an effort to reduce the impact of chronic disease on children. Most of the study designs were randomized control trial and quasi-experiment. Some of the benefits of family empowerment inter- ventions were quality of life, family care, and self-ability. The interventions helped the families to be empowered and actively participate in caring for children with chronic diseases. There were nine articles that discussed family empowerment interventions that have an impact in dealing with the impact of chronic disease on children, namely improving quality of life, family care, and self-ability. Keywords: children; chronic disease; family empowerment 1. Introduction Chronic disease is a non-communicable disease that can cause death and has a long duration, and develops slowly. The causes of chronic disease are a combination of physi- ological, genetic, behavioral, and environmental factors [1]. The WHO (2018) has stated that there will be an epidemiological transition from infectious diseases to non-communi- cable diseases in 2030 [2]. Several types of chronic diseases cause limitations and disabil- ities in sufferers [3]. Chronic disease can lead to hospitalization due to limitations in daily activities [4]. Children who are hospitalized today are experiencing more serious and complex problems, and often children who experience long-term hospitalization are at high risk of experiencing disturbances in child development [5]. Chronic diseases include hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cancer, kidney failure, and so on. Chronic diseases kill more than 36 million people every year. Deaths due to cardi- ovascular disease are mostly caused by PTMs and affect as many as 17.3 million people per year, followed by cancer (7.6 million), respiratory disease (4.2 million), and DM (1.3 million). These four groups of disease types cause about 80% of all PTM deaths [6]. Chronic kidney disease affects an average of 10% of the population worldwide—the In- donesian Renal Registry (IRR) noted that in 2015 there were 30,544 active patients under- going hemodialysis, most of whom were chronic kidney failure patients [7]. Citation: Mardhiyah, A.; Panduragan, S.L.; Mediani, H.S. Reducing Psychological Impacts on Children with Chronic Disease via Family Empowerment: A Scoping Review. Healthcare 2022, 10, 2034. https://doi.org/10.3390/ healthcare10102034 Academic Editor: César Leal-Costa Received: 6 August 2022 Accepted: 12 October 2022 Published: 14 October 2022 Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neu- tral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institu- tional affiliations. Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Li- censee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and con- ditions of the Creative Commons At- tribution (CC BY) license (https://cre- ativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).