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- Title
Self-management education: history, definition, outcomes, and mechanisms.
- Authors
Lorig, Kate R; Holman, Halsted
- Abstract
Self-management has become a popular term for behavioral interventions as well as for healthful behaviors. This is especially true for the management of chronic conditions. This article offers a short history of self-management. It presents three self-management tasks--medical management, role management, and emotional management--and six self-management skills--problem solving, decision making, resource utilization, the formation of a patient-provider partnership, action planning, and self-tailoring. In addition, the article presents evidence of the effectiveness of self-management interventions and posits a possible mechanism, self-efficacy, through which these interventions work. In conclusion the article discusses problems and solutions for integrating self-management education into the mainstream health care systems.
- Publication
Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, 2003, Vol 26, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0883-6612
- Publication type
Review
- DOI
10.1207/S15324796ABM2601_01