A Chronic Disease Self Care Management Pilot Study

Pace University

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Chronic Disease

Treatments: Behavioral: EMPOWER-BKP

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05622422

1936501-Pace

Details and patient eligibility

About

The intervention aims to activate patients' inherent resources and by this, facilitate empowerment, patient activation and self-care management of their chronic disease.

Full description

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.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 89 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years of age

  • Undergoing treatment for chronic illness
  • Cognitive capacity to participate in group formats
  • Able to answer questions from questionnaires
  • Able to read and speak English.
  • Score greater than 18 on the MoCA cognitive test

Exclusion criteria

• Major reduction in cognitive capacity (i.e. major strokes, dementia, or other related conditions).
• Serious mental illness that impacts the ability to give consent or limits effective participation within a group discussion as assessed by the PI and RA in consultation following routine study protocols used in the study setting (patients may suffer from mild cognitive impairment but must be able to understand and complete questionnaires and engage in intervention groups).
• Patients in palliative phases of cancer.
• Patients in an acute medical crisis or in need of intensive care. -Patients who attend similar interventions in the same period or within the past 3 months. -

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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30 participants in 1 patient group

Body Knowleging Program Pilot Study

Experimental group

Description:

There will be three groups of 10 participants with a chronic disease that will receive the Body knowledging Program. 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, then the intervention will be provided in seven sessions the first three face-to-face at a local community center and then the last four sessions through video conferencing that will be facilitated by three researchers. Data collection will take place at the first session and then again at the seventh session. The participants will be invited back in week nine to attend a video conference focus group to obtain qualitative data. Both qualitative and quantitative data will be analyzed.

Treatment:

Behavioral: EMPOWER-BKP