Exploring the ability of self-report measures to identify risk of high treatment burden in chronic disease patients: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Effective self-management of chronic health conditions is key to avoiding disease escalation and poor health outcomes, but self-management abilities vary. Adequate patient capacity, in terms of abilities and resources, is needed to effectively manage the treatment burden associated with chronic health conditions. The ability to measure different elements of capacity, as well as treatment burden, may assist to identify those at risk of poor self-management. Our aims were to: 1. Investigate correlations between established self-report tools measuring aspects of patient capacity, and treatment burden; and 2. Explore whether individual questions from the self-report tools will correlate to perceived treatment burden without loss of explanation. This may assist in the develop

SUBMITTER: Hardman R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8785389 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature