The intervention aims to activate patients' inherent resources and by this, facilitate empowerment, patient activation and self-care management of their chronic disease.
The intervention aims to activate patients' inherent resources and by this, facilitate empowerment, patient activation, and self-care management of their chronic disease. The participants will include people 18 years and older that have been diagnosed with a chronic disease. This pilot study will use a pre-post design. Data will be collected initially and then at the seventh session. The intervention will be provided in seven sessions face-to-face for the first three sessions and then via video conferencing for the last four sessions. Each session is facilitated by three researchers. Once the sessions are finished the participants will be invited to a focus session so that qualitative data can be collected in week nine.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
30
The intervention aims to activate patients' inherent resources and by this, facilitate empowerment, patient activation, and self-care management of their chronic disease. The participants will include people 18 years and older that have been diagnosed with a chronic disease. This pilot study will use a pre-post design. Some of the data will be collected initially at the first session and then again at the seventh session. The intervention will be provided in seven sessions the first three will be face-to-face at a community center and then the last four sessions will be through video conferencing and will be facilitated by three researchers. The participants will be invited to a focus group interview in week nine in order to collect quantitative data. Once the sessions are finished both qualitative and quantitative data will be collected and then analyzed.
The Health Education Impact Questionnaire (heiQ)
measures eight self-management skills in people with chronic conditions. Possible scores are on a 4 point likert scale. The scale is 1-4. higher score indicates better self-management, with the exception of the emotional wellbeing construct for which scoring is reversed.
Time frame: 15 minutes
The Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (B-IPQ)
assesses the five cognitive illness representations on a five-point Likert scale. The scale is 0-10. A higher score reflects a more threatening view of the illness.
Time frame: 5 minutes
The Patient Activation Measure (PAM)
the measure of a person's knowledge, skills, and confidence to manage their own health and well-being on a 0-100 scale the higher score measures indicate higher patient activation.
Time frame: 10 minutes
The European Quality of Life Questionnaire (EQ5D)
measures a person's quality of life on a scale 0-100. The higher the score the higher the quality of life.
Time frame: 10 minutes
The Bodyknowledging Questionnaire (BKQ)
measures the phases of the Bodyknowledging program
Time frame: 20 minutes
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