Chronic Illness Management: Strategies for Self-Care and Self-Management

Running head: CHRONIC ILLNESS MANAGEMENT
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CHRONICX ILLNESS MANAGEMENT 2
Chronic illness management
According to (Larsen, 2009) for chronic patients, it’s very important that an effective
self-care plan. The most effective self-plan is one which the patient has been collaborated and
helped in prescribing the best way to manage self-care more so when having chronic diseases
(Kramer-Kile & Osuji , 2012) it’s the rule of the health care professionals to ensure that the self-
care plan is designed well to achieve the desired results. Therefore to achieve this, there are some
strategies that can be used and are used to support self-management in self-care and also self-
managing the chronic infections. The strategies include
1. Behavioral strategies
According to this strategy, when a client is involved in planning their own care, there is always a
successful management. (Th health foundation, 2013) There are always better results for a client
when this strategy is used since they are knowledgeable, very active and act role of a
collaborative partner when it comes to their own care. Engaging learning processes and teaching
participants the skills make the behavioral strategies.
Psychological strategies
Some of the main integral values for managing chronic disease are feelings and altitudes. It’s
very necessary that a client understands that emotional responses that are related to their chronic
disease are very vital.
2. Communication strategy
This strategy is used in ensuring that a chronic disease patient or client gets to understand the
information they receive. It entails assessing chronic disease client on their level of
understanding and clarification when they receive information. (Harriet & Snyder, 2009)
The following is an example on the usage of the 5As of the self-care support model and plan.
(Glasgow & Miller , 2006)
ASSESS ADVISE AGREE ASSIST ARRANGE
Statement:
Do you feel some
challenges to stay
under medication
and to maintain
the chronic
Statement:
It’s very
challenging to
cope the
situation,
however, having
Statement:
Are you willing to
seek better medical
check-ups for the
treatment of the
Statement:
What makes
you not be able
to cope with the
current
Statement:
Can I organize
you have a
meeting with
specialized
doctors in the