Journal
PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING
Volume 90, Issue 1, Pages 29-37Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2012.09.003
Keywords
Self-management; Chronic disease; Patient-centered care; Medical education; Continuing medical education
Funding
- California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) [08-1217]
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Objective: To evaluate a web-based self-management training for health professionals. Patients spend 99% of their time outside the healthcare system. Thus self-management support from health professionals is central to optimal care. Our objective was to teach health professionals the skills to provide this support. Methods: Primary care residents and practicing providers enrolled in six groups. Each group received four web-based interactive training sessions derived from self-efficacy theory. Retrospective-pre/post assessed changes in self-management beliefs and confidence. Wilcoxon signed-rank tests with Bonferroni correction compared responses. Focus groups solicited qualitative feedback. Results: Fifty-seven residents and providers across the United States enrolled. Residents demonstrated positive changes on all belief questions (P 0.001-0.012). Practicing providers had a non-significant positive change on one and significant changes on the remainder (P 0.001-0.018). Both types of participants demonstrated significant increases on confidence questions regarding their ability to support self-management (P < 0.01 for all). Participants described learned techniques as being useful, reducing burnout, and increasing acceptance of patient involvement in care planning. Conclusion: The web-based self-management support training for health professionals was feasible and changed beliefs and confidence. Practice implications: The program may maximize patient self-management by increasing provider self-efficacy and skill for self-management support. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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