Xuxi Zhang
Health promotion for people with chronic conditions The results of our study support the relevance of peer support programs for diabetes management. We recommend to support and extend ongoing peer support provided by adults with chronic conditions themselves or by nonprofessionals. We suggest to develop strategies to encourage adults with chronic conditions to participate in peer support programs. The results of our study show that multifactorial interventions can reduce the risk of developing diabetic retinopathy and its progression among patients with T2DM. More importantly, we found that individualization of targets and communication between health professionals and patients may be important characteristics for successful interventions. We recommend to develop strategies to enable ophthalmologists and diabetes health professionals to work together with patients. These strategies may enable the health professionals to provide more personalized health advice and to help the patients set more individualized targets. Healthy ageing Instead of merely focusing on treating health conditions, the results of our study suggest that more focus on prevention as well as better self‐management of health conditions can be beneficial to promoting healthy ageing. Healthy lifestyle, social support and social engagement may be important factors to prevent and control health conditions. Therefore, we recommend to develop strategies to promote healthy lifestyle, social support and social engagement. 9.5 GENERAL CONCLUSION This thesis focusses on health promotion for people with frailty and chronic conditions: First, the physical, psychological and social frailty each have a negative association with both physical and mental HRQoL. Maintaining a regular frequency of physical activity and (if not present) increasing to a regular frequency of physical activity are associated with maintaining or improving the level of physical, psychological and social frailty. The TFI, a self‐report questionnaire that assesses physical, psychological and social domains of frailty, has been shown to be reliable and valid in Spain, Greece, Croatia, the Netherlands and the UK. Lack of confidence regarding unfamiliar care providers, may be a barrier to engage in certain preventive care activities; this may be a barrier towards adequate use of coordinated prevented care among older people. Second, peer support may be effective with regard to glycemic control for patients with T2DM. Curriculum‐combined‐reinforcement‐intervention and Home‐visit‐intervention are suggested according to the results of our study. Multifactorial interventions with individualized targets and communication between health professionals and patients are more effective than other interventions in the prevention and control of diabetic retinopathy. 9 231 General discussion
Made with FlippingBook
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy ODAyMDc0