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The Self-Care Matrix: a unifying frameowrk for self-care [PDF]

, 2019
BACKGROUND: There is resurgent interest in the concept and practice of self-care as a means to improve the health, wellness and wellbeing of individuals, and as an avenue to mitigate financial pressures and growing demands on health and social care ...
Majeed, Azeem, Webber, David, El-Osta, Austen, Gnani, Shamini, Mummery, David, Smith, Peter   +5 more
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Self-Care in Health [PDF]

Annual Review of Public Health, 1983
Self-care in health in this paper refers to those activities individuals under­ take in promoting their own health, preventing their own disease, limiting their own illness, and restoring their own health. These activities are under­ taken without professional assistance, although individuals are informed by technical knowledge and skills derived from ...
L S, Levin, E L, Idler
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Effectiveness of Mobile App-Assisted Self-Care Interventions for Improving Patient Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes and/or Hypertension: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2020
Background Mobile app-assisted self-care interventions are emerging promising tools to support self-care of patients with chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension.
Kai-Feng Liu, Zhen-Zhen Xie, C. Or
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Characteristics of self-care interventions for patients with a chronic condition: A scoping review.

International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2020
BACKGROUND Self-care is a fundamental element of treatment for patients with a chronic condition and a major focus of many interventions. A large body of research exists describing different types of self-care interventions, but these studies have never ...
B. Riegel, H. Westland, P. Iovino, I. Barelds, Joyce C. Bruins Slot, M. Stawnychy, O. Osokpo, Elise Tarbi, J. Trappenburg, E. Vellone, A. Strömberg, T. Jaarsma   +11 more
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Informing the development of services supporting self-care for long term mental health conditions: A mixed method study of community based mental health initiatives in England [PDF]

, 2012
Background Supporting self-care is being explored across health care systems internationally as an approach to improving care for long term conditions in the context of ageing populations and economic constraint.
Simons, L., Lucy Simons, Self Care in Mental Health research team, Gillard, S., Turner, K., Adams, Katie, Miller, Stephen, Team, Self Care Mental Hlth Res, White Sarah, Edwards Christine, Lucock Mike, Turner, K, Rachel White, Gillard Steve, Lucock, M., White, R., Edwards, C, Turner Kati, Edwards, C., Simons Lucy, Adams, K., White, Sarah, Gillard, S, Simons, L, Miller, S., Adams, K, Lucock, Mike, White Rachel, Kati Turner, Gillard, Steve, Edwards, Christine, White, Rachel, Turner, Kati, Stephen Miller, Lucock, M, Simons, Lucy, null null, Christine Edwards, Mike Lucock, Miller, S, Sarah White, Adams Katie, White, S., White, R, White, S, Miller Stephen, Steve Gillard, Katie Adams   +47 more
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Critical care work during COVID-19: a qualitative study of staff experiences in the UK

BMJ Open, 2021
Objective To understand National Health Service (NHS) staff experiences of working in critical care during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.Design Qualitative study using semistructured telephone interviews and rapid analysis ...
Natalie Pattison, Corrienne Mcculloch, Sally Humphreys, Annemarie B Docherty, Catherine M Montgomery, Steve Sturdy   +5 more
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Needing permission: The experience of self-care and self-compassion in nursing: A constructivist grounded theory study.

International Journal of Nursing Studies, 2020
BACKGROUND Healthcare is delivered in a culture of ongoing change, with many nurses highlighting the impact of this on their own wellbeing. However, there is a dearth of literature focusing on how nurses care for themselves as they try to provide ...
H. Andrews, S. Tierney, K. Seers
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What is the suitability of clinical vignettes in benchmarking the performance of online symptom checkers? An audit study

BMJ Open, 2022
Objective Assess the suitability of clinical vignettes in benchmarking the performance of online symptom checkers (OSCs).Design Observational study using a publicly available free OSC.Participants Healthily OSC, which provided consultations in English ...
Azeem Majeed, Mansour Taghavi Azar Sharabiani, Saba Mian, Austen El-Osta, Emmanouil Bagkeris, Aos Alaa, Iman Webber   +6 more
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Hair Cortisol Concentration, Perceived Stress, Mental Well-Being, and Cardiovascular Health in African American Older Adults: A Pilot Study

Geriatrics, 2022
(1) Background: African Americans experience high rates of psychological stress and hypertension, which increases their risk of cardiovascular disease with age.
Ericka L. Richards, Kathy D. Wright, Ingrid K. Richards Adams, Maryanna D. Klatt, Todd B. Monroe, Christopher M. Nguyen, Karen M. Rose   +6 more
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The summary of diabetes self-care activities measure: results from 7 studies and a revised scale.

Diabetes Care, 2000
OBJECTIVE To review reliability, validity, and normative data from 7 different studies, involving a total of 1,988 people with diabetes, and provide a revised version of the Summary of Diabetes Self-Care Activities (SDSCA) measure.
Deborah J. Toobert, S. Hampson, R. Glasgow   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source