Who benefits from self-management support? Results from a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Self-management support models adapted to accommodate the needs of each patient are complex interventions that should be evaluated for intervention mechanisms. In a national randomized controlled trial (RCT), we evaluated the efficacy of telephone-based self-management support that demonstrated improved health-related quality of life (HRQoL), no reduction in hospital admissions, and an unexpected increase in primary healthcare services.

Objective

The objective of this study is to identify RCT impact mechanisms and explore which participants could benefit the most from the PaHS intervention.

Methods

This study evaluates intervention mechanisms through interaction analyses of predefined intervention moderators (sex, age, education, chronic disease, risk of ho

SUBMITTER: Benthien KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10336573 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature