Healthier Living Canada

September 15, 2014 updated by: Kate Lorig, Stanford University

Chronic Disease Self-Management Online Workshop for Canada

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.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

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

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

297

Phase

  • Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • California
      • Stanford, California, United States, 94305
        • Stanford University School of Medicine

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:Adults 18 and over living with any chronic or long term health condition such as heart disease, lung disease, diabetes. Exclusion Criteria:Not meeting the inclusion criteria

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
  • Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
  • Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
  • Masking: NONE

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Online Chronic Disease Self-management
6 week, online, small group online self-management workshop
Behavioral: Chronic Disease Self-Management Online Workshop
6 week, online, small group self-management workshop
Other Names:
  • Healthy Living Canada

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
health behaviors
Time Frame: 6 month and 1 year
6 month and 1 year
health utilization
Time Frame: 6 month and 1 year
6 month and 1 year
health status
Time Frame: 6 months and 1 year
6 months and 1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Stanford University

Collaborators

AHS Cancer Control Alberta
National Council on Aging (NCOA)

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

January 1, 2010

Primary Completion (ACTUAL)

November 1, 2011

Study Completion (ACTUAL)

August 1, 2012

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

January 11, 2010

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 12, 2010

First Posted (ESTIMATE)

January 13, 2010

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (ESTIMATE)

September 17, 2014

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 15, 2014

Last Verified

April 1, 2013

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • SU-01052010-4604
  • 17832

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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