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Living with Long Term Illness project: Group work in Primary Care

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Project Description

This application has arisen as a result of the applicant (Jackson) identifying a problem in clinical practice, developing a solution (Long Term Illness Groups) and engaging in some preliminary evaluation. As a result of this, there is now interest in understanding the theoretical perspectives to this problem and going on to develop a theoretically based complex intervention trial. For an application for such a trial to be successful groundwork needs to be carried out. This application is to fund such a literature review. The overall aim of this work is to contextualise the Living with Long Term Illness work within an academic framework. This approach appears to have merit and be useful to participants and could be expanded beyond the Whitby and Scarborough area (where it was initially carried out) but needs the academic foundation and validation that robust evaluation and peer reviewed dissemination could confer. The research will have two broad objectives or phases. Firstly we aim to evaluate the theoretically driven Long Term Illness Groups in the light of the literature by conducting a systematic review of the clinical effectiveness of group based interventions for people with long term conditions. Secondly we will undertake, by means of semi-structured interviews, a qualitative study to examine the impact of the groupwork on participants. Specific questions to be addressed are: Does group work as an intervention impact on patients' ability to self manage their illness and improve their psychological wellbeing? What group work methods have been used successfully in addressing physical and psychological outcomes in patients with long term conditions? What tools are appropriate to assess wellbeing in patients with long term conditions? What are the key components of a successful long term illness group?

Status Project Complete
Value £19,860.00
Project Dates Dec 1, 2013 - Jul 31, 2019

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