Better self-care through co-care? A latent profile analysis of primary care patients' experiences of e-health-supported chronic care management.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Efficient self-care of chronic conditions requires that an individual's resources be optimally combined with healthcare's resources, sometimes supported by e-health services (i.e., co-care). This calls for a system perspective of self-care to determine to what extent it involves demanding or unnecessary tasks and whether role clarity, needs support, and goal orientation are sufficient. This study aims to explore typical configurations of how the co-care system is experienced by individuals with chronic conditions who used an e-health service supporting self-monitoring and digital communication with primary care.

Method

We performed a latent profile analysis using questionnaire data from two waves (7 months apart) involving 180 of 308 eligible patients who pilot-te

SUBMITTER: Wannheden C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9540373 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature