Implementation of self management support for long term conditions in routine primary care settings: cluster randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine the effectiveness of an intervention to enhance self management support for patients with chronic conditions in UK primary care.

Design

Pragmatic, two arm, cluster randomised controlled trial.

Setting

General practices, serving a population in northwest England with high levels of deprivation.

Participants

5599 patients with a diagnosis of diabetes (n=2546), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (n=1634), and irritable bowel syndrome (n=1419) from 43 practices (19 intervention and 22 control practices).

Intervention

Practice level training in a whole systems approach to self management support. Practices were trained to use a range of resources: a tool to assess the support needs of patients, guidebooks on self management, and a we

SUBMITTER: Kennedy A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3652644 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature