scholarly journals ‘My Sport Won’t Pay the Bills Forever’: High-Performance Athletes’ Need for Financial Literacy and Self-Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 324
Author(s):  
Hee Jung Hong ◽  
Ian Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Organisational Support ◽  
Financial Challenges ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Financial Aspect

This paper investigates high-performance athletes’ development of their financial literacy and self-management skills and the related organisational support available to them during their athletic careers. The data were collected from 20 retired high-performance athletes (10 male and 10 female) representing six different countries (Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, and the UK). Thematic analysis was applied to the processing of the data and five themes emerged: (1) Funding battles: financial challenges and misjudgements; (2) Coping Strategies; (3) Support from sponsors, parents, and sport organisations; (4) Development of Financial Literacy; and (5) Life After Sport. The data indicates that athletes experienced financial challenges due to a lack of organisational support, reduced or terminated funding, and limited opportunities to access sponsorship. Typically, athletes developed their financial literacy and self-management skills by ‘self-help’ or ‘trial and error’. The findings contribute to both literature and practice by providing empirical evidence on the coping strategies adopted by athletes in order to overcome financial challenges and on the methods used in order to develop their financial literacy and self-management skills. These findings inform sport organisations and governing bodies to develop support schemes for high-performance athletes as well as deepen our knowledge of athletes’ career development and transitions focusing on the financial aspect.

scholarly journals Organisational Support for High-Performance Athletes to Develop Financial Literacy and Self-Management Skills

2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Hee Jung Hong ◽  
Ian Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Financial Planning ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
High Performance ◽  
International Olympic Committee ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Organisational Support ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
National Governments

This paper reports the results of analysing desk-based data on organisational support for high performance athletes to develop their financial literacy and self-management skills when transitioning out of sport. There are two research questions: (1) Do sport organisations provide support schemes or other interventions such that high-performance athletes develop their financial literacy and self-management skills? and (2) Do sport organisations provide financial support schemes for high-performance athletes’ retirements? If so, what do they involve? Desk-based data collection was applied to 23 sporting organisations; these comprised 21 national organisations representing 19 countries, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Oceanic National Olympic Committee (ONOC). Fifteen of the 23 organisations, representing 14 countries, provided some support or interventions on financial planning and self-management within their career assistance programmes. The findings also indicate that most organisations in 17 different countries did not provide any financial support for athletes’ retirements. While a number of sport organisations have developed appropriate interventions to assist high-performance athletes to develop financial literacy and self-management skills, such schemes appear only to be provided to high-performance athletes who have competed at the highest level e.g., Olympics, world championships, etc. Support for athletes at lower levels should also be developed and delivered by national governments, or by national sport organisations.

Implementation of a Self-management Programme for People with Long-Term Medical Conditions in a Workplace Setting

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie H. Barlow ◽  
David R. Ellard
Keyword(s):  
Working Life ◽  
Support Staff ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Medical Conditions ◽  
Management Intervention ◽  
Organisational Support ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Workplace Setting

The Expert Patient Programme (EPP) is a lay-led self management intervention, delivered in the community and is designed for people with long-term medical conditions (LTMCs). It is now widely used and accepted in the UK. The aims of this qualitative study were to examine whether implementation of the lay-led EPP in a workplace setting is perceived to benefit employees with LTMCs and to examine their existing organisational support. This article presents the results of interviews with employees before and after they attended the work-based EPP and also the views of managers that have to support staff that work with LTMCs. The results suggest that having LTMCs interferes with working life and that managers perceive that they do not have enough support to help people with LTMCs. The EPP proved to be of assistance to participants and could, with minor adaptations, be used effectively in a workplace setting.

scholarly journals Evaluation of uptake and effect on patient-reported outcomes of a clinician and patient co-led chronic musculoskeletal pain self-management programme provided by the UK National Health Service

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna K Anderson ◽  
Louise M Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Musculoskeletal Pain ◽  
Patient Activation ◽  
Management Programme ◽  
Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Health State ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Patient Reported ◽  
Uk National Health Service ◽  
The Uk

In the United Kingdom, chronic pain affects approximately 28 million adults, creating significant healthcare and socio-economic costs. The aim was to establish whether a programme designed to use best evidence of content and delivery will be used by patients with significant musculoskeletal pain problems. Of 528 patients recruited, 376 participated in a 7-week-long group-based self-management programme (SMP) co-delivered by clinical and lay tutors. Of these, 308 patients (mean age, 53 years; 69% females, 94% White) completed at least five SMP sessions. Six months after pre-course assessment, participants reported significantly improved patient activation and health status, lower depression and anxiety scores, decreased pain severity and interference, and improved self-management skills. There were no improvements in health state and pain self-efficacy. Uptake rate was 71% and completion 82%. The results should be of value to commissioners of pathways of care for the large numbers of patients attending the English NHS for chronic musculoskeletal pain.

Diabetes education to provide the necessary self-management skills

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-201
Author(s):  
Val Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Education ◽  
Patient Empowerment ◽  
Chronic Health Condition ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Community Healthcare ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Number Of Individuals

Diabetes is a chronic health condition requiring patients to provide 95% of their own care. Having control over this condition and the self-care behaviours necessary for good diabetes self-management can be achieved with patient empowerment and effective diabetes education. The patient must perceive that they have this level of control to maintain good diabetes self-management, enabling prevention or delay of diabetic complications. Currently, there are 3.9 million people who have been diagnosed with diabetes in the UK, 90% of whom have Type 2 diabetes. However, there has also been a rise in prevalence of Type 1 diabetes in recent years – caused by autoimmune disease rather than lifestyle factors. The number of individuals now living with diabetes exerts a huge toll on the NHS and community healthcare resources, making it crucial that patients manage their condition as well as possible to reduce the human and healthcare costs of treating diabetes complications.

scholarly journals 411 - Implementing the STrAtegies for RelaTives (START) intervention in Portugal – preliminary findings

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (S1) ◽  
pp. 127-127
Author(s):  
Fatima Urzal ◽  
Ana Quintão ◽  
Catarina Santos ◽  
Nuno Moura ◽  
Ana Banazol ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Family Caregivers ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Unmet Needs ◽  
Depression Scale ◽  
Subjective Impression ◽  
Implementation Challenges ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
The Uk

IntroductionAs in other countries, Portuguese family caregivers have unmet needs regarding information and distress. START (STrAtegies for RelaTives) is a manual-based coping intervention for families of people with dementia, including coping strategies and stress-management components, by Livingston and colleagues (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/research/mental-health-older-people/projects/start). In the UK, START has been clinically effective, immediately and continuing even after 6-years, without increasing costs. Clinical training and supervision ensures treatment fidelity. In Portugal, these kind of interventions are less available and, when provided, are mostly supportive and fail to address coping strategies. Paradoxically, recruitment may also prove challenging.ObjectivesWe describe the development of the Portuguese translation of START, incorporating guidance from the UK team, and a pilot study of delivery to family caregivers of people with dementia. We will also discuss the challenges of recruiting participants and delivering the intervention.MethodWe translated the START intervention and recruited family caregivers from neurology and psychiatry outpatients, in a central hospital in Lisbon. Our baseline assessment included the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the Zarit Burden Interview. The pilot is still ongoing at time of submitting, so we focus on recruitment, baseline assessments and process issues.ResultsDuring a three-month period, we recruited six caregivers. Five were primary caregivers (spouses or adult children) who had been caring for their relatives for 2 up to 10 years. Two caregivers met the international cutoff for clinically relevant affective disorder . The most frequent motivators for taking part were learning to communicate with their relatives and increasing knowledge to build community resources. Overall, the subjective impression of the therapist in charge is that the intervention seems acceptable and promising.Discussion/ConclusionsThis pilot study will eventually lead to an improved version of the Portuguese version of the START manual. So far, the intervention seems appropriate for selected caregivers in Portugal. However, response to striking unmet needs, particularly basic home support, may need to precede interventions like START. We look forward to concluding the intervention study and analyzing the implementation challenges, as a basis to inform a wider-scale trial.

scholarly journals AB0894-HPR THE JOURNEY OF PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (Suppl 1) ◽  
pp. 1470.2-1471
Author(s):  
M. Fusama ◽  
S. Oliver ◽  
H. Nakahara ◽  
Y. Van Eijk-Hustings ◽  
Y. Kuroe
Keyword(s):  
Rheumatoid Arthritis ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Stable Phase ◽  
Management Skills

Background:The course of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) differs from patient to patient, and each patient has a unique story. The disease condition affects psychological and social aspects, greatly affecting the quality of life. The disease course is unpredictable, and each patient’s story can be seen as a lifelong journey, full of ups and downs. Therefore, it is crucial to know what kind of support is required during the course of their life.Objectives:The aim of this study is to examine the life story of patients with RA and clarify a common situation in their stories in order to consider what kind of support is needed.Methods:This is a qualitative study using life story interview for patients with RA in Japan. Interview included disease history, patients’ behaviors, effects on daily life, the patients’ perspectives regarding psychological considerations and useful support. Data were analyzed using content analysis. This study was approved by the ethics committee and informed consent was obtained.Results:Eight patients participated in this study. They were all females and the average age was 57 years old. As a result of the categorization, we extracted the following eight situations: (1) Emergence of symptom; patients thought joint pain would go away, however, the symptom did not improve and began to affect their daily life and work, (2) Choose a hospital to visit; pain and anxiety have continued and decided to visit a hospital, (3) Encounter with their doctors; patients expected their doctor to relieve their pain, while they were afraid of being told that they were suffering from a serious disease. (4) Diagnosis of RA; patients were shocked when diagnosed and anxious about what would happen and wondered why they had such a disease, (5) Choice of treatment; patients were afraid of the side effects. They wanted to make a decision discussing with their doctor, but they could not understand the explanation about drugs well and, therefore, followed the doctor’s opinion. (6) Change of treatment; a biological agent was often recommended. Patients were also worried about side effects and the financial burden. (7) Remission or stable phase; they felt better mentally too, however, they often felt anxiety about disease flare, side effect of drugs and financial burden, and (8) Flare and remission; patients felt shocked and disappointed when RA flared, and then, they noticed that patients with RA had alternating periods of relapse and remission and they had to live with RA.These interviews revealed repeated worsening and improvement of symptoms and many similar repeated psychological reactions such as anxiety, shock, denial, conflict, acceptance, giving up and relief. To cope with these fluctuating disease and mental conditions, patients were supported by educational and psychological assistance, timely consultations, social life help from nurses and support from their family. The patients considered a trusting relationship with their doctors is necessary. The patients had also realized through their experience the importance of enhancing their own abilities, such as decision-making, prevention of infections and self-management skills. Moreover, they noticed that it is important to have their own goals including hobbies and work.Conclusion:This study elucidated the common behaviors of patients with RA, the impact of RA on their psychological state and daily and social life, and the required support. The psychological condition and daily and social life also had a great influence on medical behavior. Therefore, psychosocial support and establishment of trust between healthcare professionals and patients are crucial. In addition, improving patients’ self-management skills including self-efficacy and empowerment is also necessary. As patients with RA often feel anxious in various situations and expect nurses’ support, nurses should listen to patients, pay attention to their concerns and anxieties, and show a solution-oriented attitude. In order for patients to feel at ease in their Patient Journey, nurses should sail with them while maintaining a patient-centered perspective.Disclosure of Interests:None declared

scholarly journals Teaching Self-Management Skills in Persons with Chronic Lower Limb Swelling and Limited Mobility: Evidence for Usability of Telerehabilitation

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Becky L. Faett ◽  
David M. Brienza ◽  
Mary Jo Geyer ◽  
Leslie A Hoffman
Keyword(s):  
Integrated System ◽  
Lower Limbs ◽  
Health Conditions ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Limited Mobility ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Perceived Usability ◽  
Predominately Female ◽  
Viable Method

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usability of telerehabilitation as a method of teaching self-management for chronic swelling of the lower limbs in persons with limited mobility. An in-home telerehabilitation self-management education protocol for chronic swelling of the lower limbs, termed Telerehabilitation to Empower You to Manage and Prevent Swelling (TR-PUMPS), was implemented using the Versatile and Integrated System for Telerehabilitation (VISYTER) software platform. Participants (n=11) were 36-79 years old, predominately female (72.7%) and diagnosed with a variety of health conditions. Participants’ perceived usability scores of the remote delivery of TR-PUMPS was high with a median score of 6.67 (range 4.90 - 7.00) on a Likert scale: 1= disagree to 7= agree. There was no correlation between participants’ familiarity with information technology and their perception of telerehabilitation usability. These results support telerehabilitation as a viable method for teaching a home-based, self-management

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