Healthier Living Canada

NCT ID: NCT01047514

Last Updated: 2014-09-17

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: PHASE2
• Total Enrollment: 297 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2010-01-31
• Study Completion Date: 2012-08-31

Brief Summary

This study will evaluate the effectiveness of an online Chronic Disease Self-Management Program for participants in Canada living with chronic health conditions. This pilot will look for improvements in health status, health behaviors and health care utilization.

Detailed Description

The Healthier Living with Ongoing Health Problems online workshop provides self-management and self care skills training for people with long-term health conditions such as heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, asthma and others. The workshop is delivered via the Internet over a six-week period. This is a pilot project, which means that it is being run for a limited time to test out its format and its usefulness for participants in Canada. A similar programme has been implemented in the USA, UK, and Australia, but it has to be tried now in Canada to see its usefulness for people in this country. .

The Online workshop is aimed at helping you to take better care of yourself and to better manage your health condition. It is hoped that at the end of the workshop you will be able to do the things you want to do and maintain the relationships that are important to you.

With the facilitators and other workshop participants, you will discuss:

• Dealing with fatigue/tiredness
• Dealing with difficult emotions
• Dealing with your physical symptoms
• Solving the problems caused by your condition
• Starting and maintaining an appropriate exercise or activity programme
• Managing medications
• Communicating better with health care professionals
• Communicating better with your friends, family and colleagues

Conditions

Asthma; Chronic Disease

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Online Chronic Disease Self-management

6 week, online, small group online self-management workshop

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Chronic Disease Self-Management Online Workshop

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

6 week, online, small group self-management workshop

Interventions

Chronic Disease Self-Management Online Workshop

6 week, online, small group self-management workshop

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

Healthy Living Canada

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:Adults 18 and over living with any chronic or long term health condition such as heart disease, lung disease, diabetes.

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion Criteria:Not meeting the inclusion criteria

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

AHS Cancer Control Alberta

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

National Council on Aging (NCOA)

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Stanford University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Kate Lorig

professor emertius

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Kate R Lorig

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Stanford University

Locations

Stanford University School of Medicine

Stanford, California, United States

Countries

United States

Other Identifiers

17832

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

SU-01052010-4604

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id