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About this good practice
In addition to the self-care and self-management of the disease, this good practice seeks training to better understand their illness, take responsibility for their health and participate in shared decision-making with health professionals.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, this good practice consider a definitive implementation, targeting a wider population. In addition to anonymity, easy, convenient access without timetables. Methodology based on reading content, interaction with group members on problems, achievements, difficult emotions, action plans, and learning self-care and self-management skills. The people with basic technological skills can participatethrough 6 sessions/6 weeks, facilitated by two facilitators. Moreover, this program also includes the conversion of the face-to-face meetings to videoconferences format.
Resources needed
Two full staff for developing the content of the courses.
Evidence of success
- Asynchronous format - no set completion time: 505 participants of whom 76.6% completed the training. Seventy-five percent feel more able to control their illness. Regarding the experience; 1) classroom content 4/5, 2) the facilitators 4.1/5, 3) satisfaction and assessment with the course and materials 4/5.
- Regarding the videoconference format, 167 participants, 89% completed the training with an average age of 59 years, there is a general satisfaction and organization, 9/10.
Potential for learning or transfer
This type of good practice promotes patient empowerment in an online format that overcomes the limitations of attending at a specific location within a limited timetable. Online access and regular follow-up of the different activities proposed can be easy to implement once the content has been developed through videos or documents. Moreover, it is an incremental format that allows content to be created on a sustained basis. Also, user activity is easily traceable, so that the acceptance and achievement of proposed objectives can be tracked.
This is why, as a whole, other regions could decide to carry out similar programmes with a limited investment, but with notable results.
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