Healthcare professionals' perspective on treatment burden and patient capacity in low-income rural populations: challenges and opportunities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The challenges of chronic disease self-management in multimorbidity are well-known. Shippee's Cumulative Complexity Model provides useful insights on burden and capacity factors affecting healthcare engagement and outcomes. This model reflects patient experience, but healthcare providers are reported to have a limited understanding of these concepts. Understanding burden and capacity is important for clinicians, since they can influence these factors both positively and negatively. This study aimed to explore the perspectives of healthcare providers using burden and capacity frameworks previously used only in patient studies.

Methods

Participants were twelve nursing and allied health providers providing chronic disease self-management support in low-income primary

SUBMITTER: Hardman R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7942213 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature