The Chronic Care Model and Chronic Condition Self-Management: An Introduction for Audiologists
2019 (English)In: Seminars in Hearing, ISSN 0734-0451, E-ISSN 1098-8955, Vol. 40, no 01, p. 007-025Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Hearing health care is biomedically focused, device-centered, and clinician-led. There is emerging evidence that these characteristics—all of which are hallmarks of a health care system designed to address acute, rather than chronic, conditions—may contribute to low rates of help-seeking and hearing rehabilitation uptake among adults with hearing loss. In this review, we introduce audiologists to the Chronic Care Model, an organizational framework that describes best-practice clinical care for chronic conditions, and suggest that it may be a viable model for hearing health care to adopt. We further introduce the concept of chronic condition self-management, a key component of chronic care that refers to the knowledge and skills patients use to manage the effects of a chronic condition on all aspects of daily life. Drawing on the chronic condition evidence base, we demonstrate a link between the provision of effective self-management support and improved clinical outcomes and discuss validated methods with which clinicians can support the acquisition and application of self-management skills in their patients. We examine the extent to which elements of chronic condition self-management have been integrated into clinical practice in audiology and suggest directions for further research in this area.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2019. Vol. 40, no 01, p. 007-025
Keywords [en]
aural rehabilitation, Chronic Care Model, chronic condition, hearing loss, self-management
National Category
Otorhinolaryngology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-188099DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1676780OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-188099DiVA, id: diva2:1692828
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