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avje delovno aktivne populacije | health of the working-age population 56 environments (Taylor et al., 2014)others lack research explicitly on self-man-
agement and, consequently, some patient groups may be overlooked. AIM To
undertake a rapid, systematic overview of the evidence on self-management
support for LTCs to inform health-care commissioners and providers about
what works, for whom, and in what contexts. METHODS Self-management
is \u2018the tasks .\u2009.\u2009. individuals must undertake to live with one
or more chronic conditions .\u2009.\u2009.\u2009[including] .\u2009.\u2009.\
u2009having the confidence to deal with medical management, role manage-
ment and emotional management of their conditions\u2019. We convened an
expert workshop and identified characteristics of LTCs potentially of relevance
to self-management and 14 diverse exemplar LTCs (stroke, asthma, type 2 di-
abetes mellitus, depression, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic
kidney disease, dementia, epilepsy, hypertension, inflammatory arthropathies,
irritable bowel syndrome, low back pain, progressive neurological disorders
and type 1 diabetes mellitus. Each day they make choices about treatment and
actively participate in the healthcare process and disease management. Not to
concentrate only on disease, self-management is defined in a broader sense as
knowledge, skills and virtues needed to adequately care for one’s health. This
includes an active and sustainable management of disease and healthy lifestyle
choices. Encouraging self-management is also a foundation for patient-centred
and patient-centric approaches in healthcare, assuming that patients have an
active role and make their own health-related decisions. Patients are partners
in relationship with healthcare professionals in contrast to a hierarchical re-
lationship in more traditional approaches (Flott et al., 2017). To make patients
capable and competent of making informed decisions about their health, it is
necessary that they are well informed (Hibbard et al., 2017).
Although television, printed media, and the community can all be po-
tential sources of information, this article will focus on the world wide web,
on account of its growing popularity and wide usability. It is designed in a way
that enables patients to search for desired information at any given time, which
makes it useful when looking for information about a specific topic, like a cur-
rent disease or certain symptoms. Although the World Wide Web is mostly
used by younger generations, many elderly patients use it to gather informa-
tion about their health (Medlock et al., 2015)how trustworthy and reliable they
find these resources, and the difficulties they face in obtaining health-related
information. A 41-item survey designed to understand the information-seek-
ing characteristics of older adults was developed and distributed to retirement
communities. Some items were taken from the Health Information National
Trends Survey. Of 1520 surveys, 403 were returned completed (26.6%, and their
numbers are expected to grow in the future.
The patient’s information seeking behaviour can generally be divided into
(1) seeking self-diagnosis information and (2) seeking information about an al-
ready diagnosed condition (Gage and Panagakis, 2012). Seeking self-diagnosis
information is less desirable, and is very unreliable, since a non-health profes-
agement and, consequently, some patient groups may be overlooked. AIM To
undertake a rapid, systematic overview of the evidence on self-management
support for LTCs to inform health-care commissioners and providers about
what works, for whom, and in what contexts. METHODS Self-management
is \u2018the tasks .\u2009.\u2009. individuals must undertake to live with one
or more chronic conditions .\u2009.\u2009.\u2009[including] .\u2009.\u2009.\
u2009having the confidence to deal with medical management, role manage-
ment and emotional management of their conditions\u2019. We convened an
expert workshop and identified characteristics of LTCs potentially of relevance
to self-management and 14 diverse exemplar LTCs (stroke, asthma, type 2 di-
abetes mellitus, depression, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic
kidney disease, dementia, epilepsy, hypertension, inflammatory arthropathies,
irritable bowel syndrome, low back pain, progressive neurological disorders
and type 1 diabetes mellitus. Each day they make choices about treatment and
actively participate in the healthcare process and disease management. Not to
concentrate only on disease, self-management is defined in a broader sense as
knowledge, skills and virtues needed to adequately care for one’s health. This
includes an active and sustainable management of disease and healthy lifestyle
choices. Encouraging self-management is also a foundation for patient-centred
and patient-centric approaches in healthcare, assuming that patients have an
active role and make their own health-related decisions. Patients are partners
in relationship with healthcare professionals in contrast to a hierarchical re-
lationship in more traditional approaches (Flott et al., 2017). To make patients
capable and competent of making informed decisions about their health, it is
necessary that they are well informed (Hibbard et al., 2017).
Although television, printed media, and the community can all be po-
tential sources of information, this article will focus on the world wide web,
on account of its growing popularity and wide usability. It is designed in a way
that enables patients to search for desired information at any given time, which
makes it useful when looking for information about a specific topic, like a cur-
rent disease or certain symptoms. Although the World Wide Web is mostly
used by younger generations, many elderly patients use it to gather informa-
tion about their health (Medlock et al., 2015)how trustworthy and reliable they
find these resources, and the difficulties they face in obtaining health-related
information. A 41-item survey designed to understand the information-seek-
ing characteristics of older adults was developed and distributed to retirement
communities. Some items were taken from the Health Information National
Trends Survey. Of 1520 surveys, 403 were returned completed (26.6%, and their
numbers are expected to grow in the future.
The patient’s information seeking behaviour can generally be divided into
(1) seeking self-diagnosis information and (2) seeking information about an al-
ready diagnosed condition (Gage and Panagakis, 2012). Seeking self-diagnosis
information is less desirable, and is very unreliable, since a non-health profes-
