Self-management support involves transforming the patient-caregiver relationship into a collaborative partnership. It also includes techniques and tools that help patients choose healthy behaviors to manage long-term conditions. The Chronic Care Model shows that supporting self-management through active follow-up, care coordination, and training patients can improve clinical outcomes and healthcare use. Research demonstrates that approaches focusing on self-efficacy, behavior change, and readiness to change work best to improve patient outcomes over simply providing information alone. Examples show that self-monitoring, goal setting, telephone support, and education can reduce hospitalizations and healthcare costs while improving self-care behaviors and health status.
1. The theory and evidence
behind self management
Natalie Grazin
Assistant Director
The Health Foundation
2. Why support self-management?
Life with a long term condition: the person’s perspective
Interactions with the service: planned or unplanned
Problem solving:
Time limited
consultation/s
Care planning: A system of
providing
regular scheduled appointments,
motivational
providing proactive structured
support
support
Care pathways:
providing
specific
interventions
NB : People may also be accessing a wide variety of other support e.g. from within their
communities
3. What is self-management
support?
“Self management support can be viewed in
two ways: as a portfolio of techniques and
tools that help patients choose healthy
behaviours; and a fundamental
transformation of the patient-caregiver
relationship into a collaborative
partnership.”
Bodenheimer T, MacGregor K, Shafiri C (2005). Helping Patients Manage
Their Chronic Conditions. California: California Healthcare Foundation.
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4. The Chronic Care Model
The problems:
• Lack of care coordination
• Lack of active follow-up
• Patients inadequately trained to
manage their illnesses
„Overcoming these deficiencies
will require nothing less than a
transformation of health care,
from a system that is essentially
reactive - responding mainly
when a person is sick - to one
that is proactive and focused on
keeping a person as healthy as
possible.‟
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5. The Chronic Care Model
„Overcoming these deficiencies
will require nothing less than a
transformation of health care,
from a system that is essentially
reactive - responding mainly
when a person is sick - to one
that is proactive and focused on
keeping a person as healthy as
possible.‟
Understanding
have role;
confident and
capable in role Supporting
people on
their
journey of
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ACP-ASIM Journals and Books
activation
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6. The evidence
Evidence for supporting self management grows every year.
• Research is up to date
• Internationally, studies are consistently positive
• Research has used a range of methodologies.
• Studies are from small to large scale.
It shows that supporting self-management can improve:
• self confidence / self efficacy
• self management behaviours
• quality of life
• clinical outcomes
• patterns of healthcare use
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7. Active support works best
Research shows that more
active support focused on
self-efficacy (confidence)
and behaviour works best
to improve outcomes.
Information and
knowledge alone are not
enough.
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8. Active support works best
Approaches that focus on
whether people are
ready to change work
well.
Source: Prof Judy Hibbard, University of Oregon
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9. Examples of improvement
• Self monitoring and agenda setting reduce hospitalisations, A&E
visits, unscheduled visits to the doctor and days off work or school for
people with asthma (Gibson et al 2004).
• Goal setting for older women with heart conditions reduces days in
hospital and overall healthcare costs (Wheeler et al 2003).
• Telephone support may improve self care behaviour, glycaemic
control, and symptoms among vulnerable people with diabetes (Piette
et al 2000).
• Motivational interviewing improve self efficacy, patient activation,
lifestyle change and perceived health status (Linden et al 2010).
• Individual education and group sessions improve symptoms for
people with high blood pressure (Boulware et al 2001).
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10. More information
Visit our self management support
resource centre on the Health Foundation‟s
website:
www.health.org.uk/sms
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Editor's Notes
SLIDE 2: Why support self-management The greatest challenge for the NHS is no longer curing infectious diseases or treating acute conditions. The greatest challenge now is enabling the nearly1 in 3 people who have a long-term condition – whether coronary heart disease or diabetes; asthma or COPD; chronic pain or rheumatoid arthritis; Parkinson’s disease or as a survivor of cancer treatment – to live healthier and longer lives without bankrupting the NHS. If that is the challenge, what is the reality? The reality is that People who live with a long-term condition spend very few hours in contact with health service. Some of those hours are for routine tests and appointments; many are for crisis interventions. Treating their long-term condition demands a different sort of health service, one in which the primary function is to support people to self-manage.This picture in this slide was drawn by people living with a long-term condition supported by some clinicians. It really does capture that reality nicely. There is a growing appreciation in health services of this reality and of the central importance both to improving outcomes and to improving quality of people with a long-term condition being actively engaged in their care.
SLIDE 3: What Is Supported Self-Management? Supporting self-management is very different from telling patients what to do. Being a good ‘self-manager’ is very different to following the doctor’s orders. To be effective at managing their own health, a patient must have a central role in determining their care, one that fosters a sense of responsibility for their own health. A health services that supports people to manage their condition ensures that they have the confidence and the skills to do so. Supporting self management involves providing encouragement and information to help people understand their condition, monitor symptoms and take appropriate action. This may include: involving people in decision makingpromoting healthily lifestyles providing education about conditions and self caremotivating people to look after themselvessetting goals and checking whether these are achieved over timeproactively following up goalsproviding opportunities to share and learn from other peopleThere are all sorts of things that nudge our behaviour. Will power may help. But for most of us most of the time, it really isn’t enough. A little bit of audience participation: raise your hand if you have you ever determined to go to a gym regularly or to shed a few pounds? Now keep your hand raised if you were still using the gym regularly six months later That’s why gyms charge you an annual fee. They know that those new year’s resolutions will soon wane, so they want your money up front. Weightwatchers understands it too. That’s why their model is built around peer support. And it works in the digital age too: [Natalie can you insert the name of the web site you use – and which I failed to use!] not only provide you with information and tools to help you understand what you can do and to measure your progress, but have also adopted a facebook approach, allowing you to share your progress with an online community that can support and encourage you.
SLIDE 6: The evidence There is strong evidence from over 600 studies and across a range of conditions – from arthritis to diabetes, COPD to hypertension; coronary heart disease to rheumatoid arthritis. The research is up to date. Most studies have been published in the past 15 years. Internationally, studies are consistently positive: from the UK, North America, Europe, Australasia and Asia are available. The findings are similarly positive across all countries. The research has used a range of methodologies, including systematic reviews, randomised trials and observational and comparative studies. Studies sizes have ranged from tens of people to several thousand. The evidence shows that when people are supported to look after themselves, they feel better, enjoy life more and have fewer visits to GPs, fewer admissions to hospital and, when they are admitted, shorter lengths of stay, costing health services less: Studies have shown a wide range of improvements: people living with arthritis reported a 12% reduction in pain; their disability decreased by 7%people living with diabetes had a significantly reduction [0.9%] in HbA1c, improvements in their quality of life as well as their diet and exercisepeople with hypertension saw a 20% reduction in systolic blood pressurethe confidence of people with asthma to manage symptoms improved, they had a more appropriate use medication and reduced hospital admission reduced hospital admission COPD, asthma, CHD –the number of sick days for people with rheumatoid and osteo-arthritis was cut in half
How do we support people to manage their condition more effectively? Again, the evidence is clear. We know what does not work: Providing information is helpful, but it is not sufficient: without the confidence and skills to use information, the information will not lead to better health outcomes. Telling a person that they need to lose weight, why they need to lose weight and that they can achieve it through exercise and eating less fat and more fruit rarely changes their behaviourSelf management courses alone are of limited effectiveness if isolated from mainstream services. The gainsin confidence are insufficient when faced with the medical model of care and the infrastructure that supports it. We also know what does work: methods that improve people’s activation and self-efficacy are the most effective ways of improving self-management, healthy behaviours and outcomes for people living with a long-term condition. collaborative interactions have the greatest impact on changing people’s behaviour and supporting them to take on responsibility for their healthcareshared agenda setting, collaborative goal setting and health service follow-up on goals lead to better quality of life, more appropriate patterns health service utilisation and better clinical outcomes.
SLIDE 7: Active support works best How do we support people to manage their condition more effectively? Again, the evidence is clear. We know what does not work: Providing information is helpful, but it is not sufficient: without the confidence and skills to use information, the information will not lead to better health outcomes. Telling a person that they need to lose weight, why they need to lose weight and that they can achieve it through exercise and eating less fat and more fruit rarely changes their behaviourSelf management courses alone are of limited effectiveness if isolated from mainstream services. The gains in confidence are insufficient when faced with the medical model of care and the infrastructure that supports it. We also know what does work: [Click mouse/pointer/return key to move slide to first builD] methods that improve people’s activation and self-efficacy are the most effective ways of improving self-management, healthy behaviours and outcomes for people living with a long-term condition. collaborative interactions have the greatest impact on changing people’s behaviour and supporting them to take on responsibility for their healthcareshared agenda setting, collaborative goal setting and health service follow-up on goals lead to better quality of life, more appropriate patterns health service utilisation and better clinical outcomes. [Click mouse/pointer/return key to move slide to second build.] Supporting people to become activated self-managers enables them: to begin the journey of taking a role in their healthto build their knowledge and their confidenceto take actionand to maintain their changed behavirours
SLIDE 8: Examples of improvement following active support So, the evidence shows that methods that improve people’s self-efficacy are most effective. There are many examples from the evidence. Here are a few: A Cochrane review of 36 trials found that self monitoring and agenda setting reduced hospitalisations, A&E visits, unscheduled visits to the doctor and days off work or school for people with asthma A US trial found that personalised goal setting for older women with heart conditions reduced days in hospital and overall healthcare costs A trial found that telephone support may improve self care behaviour, glycaemic control, and symptoms among vulnerable people with diabetes US researchers found that motivational interviewing helped improve self efficacy, patient activation, lifestyle change and perceived health statu A large meta analysis found that individual education and group sessions improved symptoms for people with high blood pressure