Home-based, peer-led chronic illness self-management training: findings from a 1-year randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Studies suggest peer-led self-management training improves chronic illness outcomes by enhancing illness management self-efficacy. Limitations of most studies, however, include use of multiple outcome measures without predesignated primary outcomes and lack of randomized follow-up beyond 6 months. We conducted a 1-year randomized controlled trial of Homing in on Health (HIOH), a Chronic Disease Self-Management Program variant, addressing these limitations.

Methods

We randomized outpatients (N = 415) aged 40 years and older and who had 1 or more of 6 common chronic illnesses, plus functional impairment, to HIOH delivered in homes or by telephone for 6 weeks or to usual care. Primary outcomes were the Medical Outcomes Study 36-ltem short-form health survey's physical c

SUBMITTER: Jerant A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2713168 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature