OBJECTIVE To explore the perspectives of patients who live with multiple chronic conditions as they relate to the challenges of self-management. DATA SOURCES On September 30, 2013, we searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, and CINAHL using relevant key words including chronic disease, comorbidity, multimorbidity, multiple chronic conditions, self-care, self-management, perspective, and perception. STUDY...

Self-efficacy beliefs in people with chronic pain have been assessed either by reference to confidence in ability to perform specific tasks or to confidence in performing more generalised constructs like coping with pain. Both approaches reflect aspects of the original conceptualisations of self-efficacy and both have proved useful, but it is noteworthy that confidence in performing activities ...

OBJECTIVE Self-concealment is the predisposition to hide negative personal information. The present research examined whether self-concealment was associated with acute and chronic pain. METHODS In Study 1, undergraduate students (N = 44) completed an online questionnaire packet and then completed a cold-pressor task in the laboratory. In Study 2, individuals with chronic pain (N = 85) comple...

OBJECTIVE Many adults experience chronic pain, yet little is known about the consequences of such pain among individuals with diabetes. The purpose of this study was to examine whether and how chronic pain affects diabetes self-management. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This is a cross-sectional study of 993 patients with diabetes receiving care through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). D...

BACKGROUND Existing literature on the design of interventions and health policy about self-management have tended to focus on individual-centred definitions of self-care and there is growing recognition of the need to extend consideration beyond individual factors, which determine self-care, to examine wider influences such as the health service, the family and the wider social context. AIMS ...

The need for self-management training is increasing as more people are living with chronic conditions. In this Chronicle we compared clinical outcomes from attendees of two types of self-management training – Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP) and diabetes selfmanagement education (DSME) with a control group. Patients who took self-management training were more likely to lose 10% o...

AIMS To describe self-management, symptom monitoring and the associated influences among older adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. BACKGROUND Optimal self-management and monitoring of key symptoms in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease reduces dyspnoea and preventable hospitalizations. METHOD A prospective, descriptive survey design was used and data collected...

objectives: low back pain is one of the main health problems which affect many people worldwide. the daily course of life is highly disrupted due to the chronic back pain problem. this study aims to explore the occupational performance of individuals with chronic low back pain. methods: fifteen people with chronic low back pain were included in this study using purposeful sampling. the particip...

A cross-sectional population-based study was conducted to identify the prevalence of common mental disorders and verify the association with chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and the self-reported number of chronic diseases. The Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ-20) was applied in a multi-stage random sample of 1,276 adults aged 40 and older. Socio-demographic, behavioral, and health-rel...