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ReviewSAGE open medicine2014

Lay and health care professional understandings of self-management: A systematic review and narrative synthesis.

Euan Sadler, Charles D A Wolfe, Christopher McKevitt

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Review in SAGE open medicine, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  2. Social network participation towards enactment of self-care in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: A qualitative meta-ethnography.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2021
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  8. Patients' experiences of, and engagement with, remote home monitoring services for COVID-19 patients: A rapid mixed-methods study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2022
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  9. Generational perspective on asthma self-management in the Bangladeshi and Pakistani community in the United Kingdom: A qualitative study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2022
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  11. Implementation of Self-Management Interventions in Cancer Survivors: Why Are We Not There Yet?Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2021
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  14. The content and conduct of GP consultations for dermatology problems: a cross-sectional study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2020
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  15. Training in health coaching skills for health professionals who work with people with progressive neurological conditions: A realist evaluation.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Euan SadlerDepartment of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences, Division of Health and Social Care Research, King's College London, London, UK.
Charles D A WolfeDepartment of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences, Division of Health and Social Care Research, King's College London, London, UK; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, London, UK.
Christopher McKevittDepartment of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences, Division of Health and Social Care Research, King's College London, London, UK; National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, London, UK.

Funding

Department of Health RP-PG-0407-10184
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesSelf-management is widely promoted but evidence of effectiveness is limited. Policy encourages health care professionals to support people with long-term conditions to learn self-management skills, yet little is known about the extent to which both parties share a common understanding of self-management. Thus, we compared health care professional and lay understandings of self-management of long-term conditions.

methodsSystematic review and narrative synthesis of qualitative studies identified from relevant electronic databases, hand-searching of references lists, citation tracking and recommendations by experts.

resultsIn total, 55 studies were included and quality was assessed using a brief quality assessment tool. Three conceptual themes, each with two subthemes were generated: traditional and shifting models of the professional-patient relationship (self-management as a tool to promote compliance; different expectations of responsibility); quality of relationship between health care professional and lay person (self-management as a collaborative partnership; self-management as tailored support) and putting self-management into everyday practice (the lived experience of self-management; self-management as a social practice).

conclusionSelf-management was conceptualised by health care professionals as incorporating both a biomedical model of compliance and individual responsibility. Lay people understood self-management in wider terms, reflecting biomedical, psychological and social domains and different expectations of responsibility. In different ways, both deviated from the dominant model of self-management underpinned by the concept of self-efficacy. Different understandings help to explain how self-management is practised and may help to account for limited evidence of effectiveness of self-management interventions.

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health care professionalslay peoplelong-term conditionsnarrative synthesisSelf-management

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PMID26770733
PMCPMC4607208

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