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Does education of primary care professionals promote patient self-management and improve outcomes in chronic disease? An updated systematic review

Claire Collins, Gillian Doran, Patricia Patton, Roisin Fitzgerald and Andree Rochfort
BJGP Open 2021; 5 (3): BJGPO.2020.0186. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2020.0186
Claire Collins
1 Director of Research, Irish College of General Practitioners, Dublin, Ireland
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    Table 1. Inclusion and exclusion criteria
    Inclusion criteriaExclusion criteriaExclusion code
    English articlesNon-English articlesEng
    Adults (aged ≥18 years)Study population aged <18 yearsAge
    Primary care or communitySecondary care or hospitalNot PC
    Chronic conditions, chronic illness, chronic disease, non-communicable disease (NCD)Acute conditionsAcute
    Study type: systematic reviews, meta-analysis, RCTs, controlled clinical trials, interrupted time series, controlled before-and-after studiesStudy type: qualitative studies, populations studies, surveys, cross sectional, uncontrolled before-and-after studies (cohort)Study
    Education and training of primary care health professionals for patient education in promoting change, behaviour change, lifestyle change, patient engagement, patient empowerment, motivational skills, patient collaboration, patient adherence and compliance, patient self-management, decision making, and patient problem-solvingNot education or training of healthcare professionalsInt
    Not primary care health professionalsPop
    Primary outcome measures not includedOut
    Direct patient education onlyEdu
    Continuing education, CME, lifelong learning, or evidence-based medicineGuideline adherence, clinical performance (no educational component involved)Guid
    All studies published from 1 September 2013 to 31 August 2018Any article outside this timeframeDate
    Organisational interventionsOrg
    Financial changes and incentivesFi
    Regulatory interventionsReg
    • CME = continuing medical education. PC = primary care. RCTs = randomised controlled trials.

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    Table 2. Quality rating of included papers
    First authorGlobalScoreSelection biasStudy designConfoundersBlindingData collection methodsWithdrawals and drop outs
    Tobe29 weakweakmodweakweakstrongmod
    Kruis30 modweakstrongstrongmodstrongmod
    Vicens31 strongstrongstrongstrongweakstrongstrong
    Keeley32 strongmodstrongstrongstrongstrongstrong
    Kristoffersen33 modweakstrongstrongstrongstrongstrong
    van Dijk-de Vries34 weakweakstrongweakmodstrongmod
    Racic35 strongstrongstrongstrongmodstrongstrong
    Vicens36 strongstrongstrongstrongstrongstrongstrong
    Kristoffersen37 modweakstrongstrongstrongstrongstrong
    Zwar38 weakweakstrongstrongstrongmodstrong
    van Lieshout39 modweakstrongstrongmodstrongstrong
    Vaillant-Roussel40 modweakstrongmodmodstrongmod
    Griffiths41 strongstrongstrongmodmodstrongmod
    Eikelenboom42 strongstrongstrongstrongmodstrongstrong
    Ramli43 modstrongstrongstrongweakstrongstrong
    Keeley44 modweakstrongstrongmodstrongstrong
    Kristoffersen45 weakweakstrongstrongweakstrongstrong
    Baldeón46 weakweakstrongweakmodstrongmod
    • mod = moderate.

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Claire Collins, Gillian Doran, Patricia Patton, Roisin Fitzgerald, Andree Rochfort
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  • self-management
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  • primary health care
  • chronic conditions

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