Views of healthcare professionals on training for and delivery of a fatigue self-management program for persons with multiple sclerosis.

CONCLUSION: This study suggests that multidimensional patient centered interventions also benefit the healthcare professionals who provide them because it expands their practice. Healthcare professionals who recognize the benefits of innovative and patient-centered interventions, supports both the patients with whom they work, and adds value to the health services they provide. Implications for rehabilitation Healthcare professionals who undergo training to facilitate delivery of self-management programs, which are based in an empowerment model, report an enhancement or expansion of their traditional practice. An empowerment-based program delivered in a group situation encourages and facilitates people to draw on their own and peers' knowledge and expertise to problem solve for self-management. Healthcare professional education should facilitate the healthcare professional's learning, and ability and willingness to acknowledge the richness in knowledge and expertise held by their patients. PMID: 29911446 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Disability and Rehabilitation - Category: Rehabilitation Authors: Tags: Disabil Rehabil Source Type: research