Development and psychometric properties of a self report measure to assess clinicians’ practices in self management support for patients with long term conditions

2011 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Kosmala-Anderson ◽  
Louise M. Wallace ◽  
Andy Turner ◽  
Fred Barwell
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 256
Author(s):  
Jenny Carryer ◽  
R Claire Budge ◽  
Helen Francis

ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION Chronic care Model (CCM) aims to make the care of people with long term conditions (LTC) planned, proactive and patient-centred. The patient assessment of chronic care (PACIC) and our recently developed modified PACIC (MPACIC) allow patient and provider views to be compared. AIM To explore the use of measures of care provision and receipt in primary care long-term conditions management and to assess congruity between patient and provider views of support. METHODS For this observational self-report study, 13 pairs of matched patient and provider dyads (patient/general practitioner and patient/practice nurse) were recruited from general practice. Patients with long-term conditions were asked to rate the support provided by their general practitioner and practice nurse, separately, using the PACIC instrument, a measure of care processes. The modified version for providers (MPACIC) was similarly administered, with GPs and PNs (herein referred to as practitioners) rating the care specifically provided to the 13 patients. Aggregated scores were compared and a case study example was used. RESULTS For 67% of ratings, patients and practitioners agreed (0 or 1 category difference) on the frequency of self-management support provision. Some disagreement was found for 19% of ratings, and considerable disagreement was found for 15%. The strongest agreement was found with Delivery System Design and the least with Goal Setting. Generally, there was little difference between patient/doctor and patient/nurse agreement. DISCUSSION Agreement between patients and practitioners regarding the level of self-management support received and provided was relatively high. This study demonstrates ways the PACIC and MPACIC can be used together to measure patient/practitioner agreement about long-term condition care provision.


2021 ◽  
pp. 174239532110434
Author(s):  
Sally Hemming ◽  
Fehmidah Munir

Objectives To examine differences in patient activation and self-management support needs in a population of UK workers with long-term health conditions. Methods Demographic, health and activation information were taken from the data of participants with long-term conditions, collected via an online cross-sectional survey of workers. The 13-item British patient activation measure measured workers knowledge, skills and confidence towards self-managing. Results Three hundred and seven workers with mental health, musculoskeletal and other conditions completed the patient activation measure. Mental health conditions were most prevalent (36.8%). Workers were higher activated, however workers with mental health conditions were significantly less activated ( p = 0.006). Differences in activation by condition severity and age were revealed. Discussion This study provides insight to the activation of UK workers with long-term conditions. Whilst workers with mental health conditions need more training and education to self-manage, workers are variably activated indicating broader support needs. There is a gap for workplace self-management support. The patient activation measure is used in healthcare to improve people’s self-management and should be considered to be included in the workplace, and could form part of interventions to support workers self-management. More rigorous studies, including the patient activation measure, are needed to identify the best approaches to identifying workers self-management support needs.


Author(s):  
Anastasius S. Moumtzoglou

Self-care emerged from the concept of health promotion in the 1970s while from 2000 onwards the term self-management gained popularity, with a greater focus on long-term conditions and the trend towards more holistic models of care. Although self-management and self-care are often used interchangeably, a distinction between the two concepts can be made. Both can be considered in terms of a continuum, with self-care at one end as “normal activity” and self-management an extension of this. Self-management support is the assistance given to patients in order to encourage daily decisions that improve health-related behaviors and clinical outcomes. The chapter envisions these concepts on a continuum with one pole representing mobile health and the other self-care. It concludes that self-management support is the nexus of mobile health and self-care.


BJPsych Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (S1) ◽  
pp. S13-S13
Author(s):  
Claire Carswell ◽  
Jennifer Brown ◽  
Abisola Balogun ◽  
Jo Taylor ◽  
Peter Coventry ◽  
...  

AimsTo systematically review and synthesise qualitative evidence about determinants of self-management in adults with SMI. The goal is to use findings from this review to inform the design of effective self-management strategies for people with SMI and LTCs.BackgroundPeople living with serious mental illness (SMI) have a reduced life expectancy by around 15–20 years, mainly due to the high prevalence of long-term physical conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. People with SMI face many challenges when trying to manage their physical health. Little is known about the determinants of self-management – managing the emotional and practical issues – of long-term conditions (LTCs) for people with SMI.MethodSix databases, including CINAHL and MEDLINE, were searched to identify qualitative studies that explored people's perceptions about determinants of self-management in adults with SMI (with or without comorbid LTCs). Self-management was defined according to the American Association of Diabetes Educator's self-care behaviours (AADE7). Determinants were defined according to the Capabilities, Opportunity, Motivations and Behaviours (COM-B) framework. Eligible studies were purposively sampled for synthesis according to the richness of the data (assessed using Ames et al (2017)'s data richness scale), and thematically synthesised.ResultTwenty-six articles were included in the synthesis. Seven studies focused on self-management of LTCs, with the remaining articles exploring self-management of SMI. Six analytic themes and 28 sub-themes were identified from the synthesis. The themes included: the additional burden of SMI; living with comorbidities; beliefs and attitudes about self-management; support from others for self-management; social and environmental factors; routine, structure and planning. Capabilities for self-management were linked to people's perceptions about the support they received for their SMI and LTC from healthcare professionals, family and friends. Opportunities for self-management were more commonly expressed in the context of social and environmental factors. Motivation for self-management was influenced by beliefs and attitudes, whilst being closely related to the burden of SMI.ConclusionThe themes identified from the synthesis suggest that capabilities, opportunities and motivations for self-management can be negatively influenced by the experience of SMI, whilst social and professional support, improved access to resources, and increased involvement in care, could promote self-management. Support programmes for people with SMI and LTCs need to account for these experiences and adapt to meet the unique needs of this population.


2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Hemming ◽  
Hilary McDermott ◽  
Fehmidah Munir ◽  
Kim Burton

PurposeLong-term health conditions are a significant occupational and global burden and can undermine people's ability to work. Workplace support for self-management of long-term conditions has the potential to minimise adverse work effects, by enhancing health and work outcomes. No data exist about employers' views concerning supporting workers with long-term conditions to self-manage.Design/methodology/approachThe exploration of employers' views involved recruiting 15 participants with responsibilities for workplace health, well-being and safety responsibilities, who participated in a semi-structured interview about self-management and support. Data were analysed using a qualitative six-stage thematic analysis technique.FindingsSelf-management support is not purposely provided to workers with long-term conditions. Support in any form rests on workers disclosing a condition and on their relationship with their line-manager. While employers have considerable control over people's ability to self-manage, they consider that workers are responsible for self-management at work. Stigma, work demands and line-manager behaviours are potential obstacles to workers' self-management and support.Practical implicationsWorkplace discussions about self-managing long-term conditions at work should be encouraged and opened up, to improve health and work outcomes and aligned with return-to-work and rehabilitation approaches. A wider biopsychosocial culture could help ensure workplaces are regarded as settings in which long-term conditions can be self-managed.Originality/valueThis study highlights that employer self-management support is not provided to workers with long-term conditions in a purposeful way. Workplace support depends on an employer knowing what needs to be supported which, in turn, depends on aspects of disclosure, stigma, work demands and line management.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (53) ◽  
pp. 1-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie JC Taylor ◽  
Hilary Pinnock ◽  
Eleni Epiphaniou ◽  
Gemma Pearce ◽  
Hannah L Parke ◽  
...  

BackgroundDespite robust evidence concerning self-management for some long-term conditions (LTCs), others lack research explicitly on self-management and, consequently, some patient groups may be overlooked.AimTo undertake a rapid, systematic overview of the evidence on self-management support for LTCs to inform health-care commissioners and providers about what works, for whom, and in what contexts.MethodsSelf-management is ‘the tasks . . . individuals must undertake to live with one or more chronic conditions . . . [including] . . . having the confidence to deal with medical management, role management and emotional management of their conditions’. We convened an expert workshop and identified characteristics of LTCs potentially of relevance to self-management and 14 diverse exemplar LTCs (stroke, asthma, type 2 diabetes mellitus, depression, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic kidney disease, dementia, epilepsy, hypertension, inflammatory arthropathies, irritable bowel syndrome, low back pain, progressive neurological disorders and type 1 diabetes mellitus). For each LTC we conducted systematic overviews of systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of self-management support interventions (‘quantitative meta-reviews’); and systematic overviews of systematic reviews of qualitative studies of patients’ experiences relating to self-management (‘qualitative meta-reviews’). We also conducted an original systematic review of implementation studies of self-management support in the LTCs. We synthesised all our data considering the different characteristics of LTCs. In parallel, we developed a taxonomy of the potential components of self-management support.ResultsWe included 30 qualitative systematic reviews (including 515 unique studies), 102 quantitative systematic reviews (including 969 RCTs), and 61 studies in the implementation systematic review. Effective self-management support interventions are multifaceted, should be tailored to the individual, their culture and beliefs, a specific LTC and position on the disease trajectory, and underpinned by a collaborative/communicative relationship between the patient and health-care professional (HCP) within the context of a health-care organisation that actively promotes self-management. Self-management support is a complex intervention and although many components were described and trialled in the studies no single component stood out as more important than any other. Core components include (1) provision of education about the LTC, recognising the importance of understanding patients’ pre-existing knowledge and beliefs about their LTC; (2) psychological strategies to support adjustment to life with a LTC; (3) strategies specifically to support adherence to treatments; (4) practical support tailored to the specific LTC, including support around activities of daily living for disabling conditions, action plans in conditions subject to marked exacerbations, intensive disease-specific training to enable self-management of specific clinical tasks; and (5) social support as appropriate. Implementation requires a whole-systems approach which intervenes at the level of the patient, the HCP and the organisation. The health-care organisation is responsible for providing the means (both training and time/material resources) to enable HCPs to implement, and patients to benefit from, self-management support, regularly evaluating self-management processes and clinical outcomes. More widely there is a societal need to address public understanding of LTCs. The lack of public story for many conditions impacted on patient help-seeking behaviour and public perceptions of need.ConclusionsSupporting self-management is inseparable from the high-quality care for LTCs. Commissioners and health-care providers should promote a culture of actively supporting self-management as a normal, expected, monitored and rewarded aspect of care. Further research is needed to understand how health service managers and staff can achieve this culture change in their health-care organisations.Study registrationThis study is registered as PROSPERO CRD42012002898.FundingThe National Institute for Health Research Health Services and Delivery Research programme.


BMJ Open ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. e010853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Reidy ◽  
Anne Kennedy ◽  
Catherine Pope ◽  
Claire Ballinger ◽  
Ivo Vassilev ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Francis ◽  
Jenny Carryer ◽  
Jill Wilkinson

Objectives The study aimed to explore how people with complex, established co-morbidities experience long-term condition care in New Zealand. Despite the original conception as appropriate for people with early stage disease, in New Zealand the self-management approach dominates the care provided to people at all stages of diagnosis with long-term conditions, something reinforced through particular funding mechanisms. Methods A multiple case study followed the lives of 16 people with several long-term conditions. Data collection comprised two interviews, four weekly contacts with patients over an 18-month period and an interview with their primary health care clinicians. Results This paper reveals a cohort of tired, distracted patients struggling to manage their lives in the face of multiple conflicting challenges, with insufficient energy for the level of personal agency required to deal with the self-management approach. Discussion Participants described aspects of care received, which does meet their needs but sit outside the self-management approach, that resonate with the ideas behind current approaches to palliative care. The potential of an approach to care built upon these ideas is explored as a more compassionate, effective way of meeting the needs of people with advanced, multiple long-term conditions. Further research is warranted to explore the acceptability of such an approach.


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