{"title":"New Patient Centered Approach to Unlock the Individual`s Potential to Adopt Healthy Lifestyles: Health Coaching","authors":"A. Cinar","doi":"10.5750/IJPCM.V5I4.511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/IJPCM.V5I4.511","url":null,"abstract":"Health Coaching (HC), a patient-empowerment focused approach, is guided and supported by the medical professional, to facilitate patient to explore, unlock and activate his/her self-potential to adopt healthy lifestyles. HC, a whole person and also a population-based approach, can be defined as a system-wide innovation aiming positive social change. A NHS review showed that there is promising evidence about HC, particularly for supporting behaviour change. HC in our international intervention project, to our knowledge, is used for the first time as a holistic health promotion approach for oral health and diabetes type 2 (T2DM) management; in line with IDF-FDI (2007) declaration stating that oral health promotion should be part of diabetes management. The aim of the present study is to assess the effectiveness of HC on oral health and T2DM management by use of clinical (HbA1c, periodontal health) and subjective measures (satisfaction with access to health care, frequency of physical activity, toothbrushing and dental visit) among T2DM patients. Our study`s preliminary results show that at post-intervention there was a significant reduction at HbA1c (Turkey:0.7%, Denmark:0.4%, p=0.001) in HC groups. The figures for HE groups were non-significant. Daily toothbrushing was correlated with change at HbA1c and regular physical activity in HC groups. Person-centered approach focusing on multidisciplinary collaboration is essential to improve the whole well-being of individual in daily life, and thereby the society, in line with WHO 2014 Geneva Declaration. HC, a promising new approach, can speak as one of the key implementations/approaches at health care-settings to meet this essentiality.","PeriodicalId":402902,"journal":{"name":"the International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine","volume":"256 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115195719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Person-centred Communications: How do People as Patients Want to be Spoken to?","authors":"J. Groves","doi":"10.5750/ijpcm.v5i4.551","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/ijpcm.v5i4.551","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The World Health Organization's (WHO) World Health Report of 2008 titled, “ Primary Health Care – Now More Than Ever” put renewed emphasis on the values of achieving health for all and putting people at the centre of healthcare (1). In order to do this it is necessary to understand what people expect and want from healthcare and pertinent communications so that health systems can be designed that can respond to patients' needs, wishes and preferences. Objectives: To consider the initiatives which are being taken forward by numerous national and global initiatives to further person-centred healthcare and consideration of the evidence for this approach with particular regard to the role of communication in enabling healthcare to meet people's needs, wishes and preferences. Methods: Review of person-centred healthcare initiatives and evidence for its impact and consideration of principles of person-centred care as they relate to healthcare communications. Results: T here is evidence for a person-centred approach to healthcare. There are fundamental principles relating to how communications can impact on patients being empowered to make informed decisions about their healthcare. Patient experiences and outcomes are improved when they have the opportunity for their wishes and preferences to inform shared decision-making in mutually trusting and equal partnerships with health professionals about their health and well being. Conclusions: Person-centred healthcare requires communication which enables respect for people's needs, preferences, dignity, values, autonomy and independence. Empowering patients and health professionals so that they can work in partnership to reach an informed decision on what the patient wants and expects from treatment should be the priority for policy-makers, health professionals and patients. There are some fundamental principles and many tools and initiatives that can support good communication and enable shared decision-making.","PeriodicalId":402902,"journal":{"name":"the International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine","volume":"54 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132069498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abstracts on Primary Care, Public Health and Person Centered Medicine","authors":"J. Mezzich","doi":"10.5750/IJPCM.V5I3.546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/IJPCM.V5I3.546","url":null,"abstract":"Presented at the 3rd International Congress of Person Centered Medicine and 1st International Conference of Primary Care and Public Health, London, 29 - 31 October 2015","PeriodicalId":402902,"journal":{"name":"the International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127578005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Person Centered Medicine, Primary Care, and Public Health","authors":"J. Appleyard, S. Rawaf","doi":"10.5750/IJPCM.V5I3.547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/IJPCM.V5I3.547","url":null,"abstract":"Ensuring that members of a society are healthy and reaching their full potential is the duty of each nation This necessitates preventing disease and injury, promoting health and well-being, assuring a healthy environment in which people can live together and the provision of timely, accessible, effective, and coordinated health care [1]. Public health is about the health of people made up of individual persons each with their own unique biomedical, psychological, social, and spiritual elements within the culture of their own societies. Primary health care (PHC) is set up to meet each person’s needs, providing a point of first contact for whatever a person might consider a health or health care issue. Thus, primary care service should be comprehensive and enable sustained relationships between patients and health care professionals over time This continuity of care allows deeper knowledge and understanding of individuals' health status, behaviours, needs, preference, and goals.","PeriodicalId":402902,"journal":{"name":"the International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121653435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
O. Bahrs, K. Henze, F. Lowenstein, H. Abholz, Katharina Ilse, S. Wilm, Gertrud Bureick, S. Heim
{"title":"Review Dialogues as an Opportunity to Develop a Person-related Overall Diagnosis","authors":"O. Bahrs, K. Henze, F. Lowenstein, H. Abholz, Katharina Ilse, S. Wilm, Gertrud Bureick, S. Heim","doi":"10.5750/IJPCM.V5I3.545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/IJPCM.V5I3.545","url":null,"abstract":"Background: In the long-term care of patients with chronic conditions, the process aspect of treatment is rarely in the focus of general practitioner(GP)-patient interactions. A specific interaction tool, the Review Dialogue (RD), has been developed to integrate patients’ health-related problems/risks as well as coping strategies/resources and to agree upon shared treatment objectives. Research question: Do periodical RDs contribute to a better achievement of treatment objectives and do they arrive at an overall diagnosis (Balint)? Methods: GPs were randomized either into an intervention group (extra training and regular RD with 20 patients with chronic conditions) or into a control group (usual care). Videos of a sub-sample of patients (5 per practice) were taken at four points in time. This paper focuses on a sub-sample of 125 video-recorded GP-patient interactions, analysed using a semi-standardised procedure (RLI). An in-depth analysis of a maximum variation sample of eight GPs’ videotapes across four points in time was made to identify professional interaction strategies. Results: Implementing the RD and creating an overall holistic diagnosis is case-specific with respect to both, the GPs and the patients. Fostering individualised care RDs might contribute to a better achievement of treatment objectives. Conclusions: Review Dialogues facilitate the GP-patient communication process about diagnostics and therapy helping to make the implied overall diagnosis explicit. Further research is needed.","PeriodicalId":402902,"journal":{"name":"the International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131289624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Summary Report of the Third International Congress of Person Centered Medicine and the First International Conference on Primary Care and Public Health","authors":"S. Dulmen, J. Appleyard","doi":"10.5750/IJPCM.V5I3.548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/IJPCM.V5I3.548","url":null,"abstract":"At the opening session, the President of Imperial College London, Professor Alice P. Gast, stressed the need for partnership, collaboration and cooperation in order to overcome health threats such as those stemming from the not yet affordable chronic diseases. Professor Azeem Majeed, Head of the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Imperial College, reminded us of the importance of public health problems like the ageing population and obesity for which person centred primary care and public health are indispensable.","PeriodicalId":402902,"journal":{"name":"the International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126421683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Wexler, Bethany S. Gerstein, Charles D Brackett, L. Fagnan, Kathleen M. Fairfield, D. Frosch, Carmen L. Lewis, L. Morrissey, Leigh H. Simmons, David Swieskowski, Yuchiao Chang, F. J. Fowler, M. Barry
{"title":"Decision Aids in the United States: the Patient Response","authors":"R. Wexler, Bethany S. Gerstein, Charles D Brackett, L. Fagnan, Kathleen M. Fairfield, D. Frosch, Carmen L. Lewis, L. Morrissey, Leigh H. Simmons, David Swieskowski, Yuchiao Chang, F. J. Fowler, M. Barry","doi":"10.5750/IJPCM.V5I3.517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/IJPCM.V5I3.517","url":null,"abstract":"Background: In the United States and elsewhere, a growing chorus of voices is calling for the routine use of patient decision aids (DAs) and shared decision making (SDM) in day-to-day care. A frequently cited barrier to this approach is the belief that many patients will not be able to understand key clinical information and/or prefer to delegate decision making to providers. These beliefs, often held by providers, are thought to be particularly applicable to elderly and less educated patients. Objectives: To test the perception that older and less educated patients will not value or benefit from DAs. Research design: Self-administered questionnaires completed by patients after viewing DAs. Subjects: 3001 patients in six primary care practice sites facing one of sixteen common medical decisions. Measures: Amount of DA viewed, knowledge about medical tests or treatments, DA rating, and importance of receiving DAs from providers. Results: Across age and education level, higher self-reported exposure to the DAs was associated with higher knowledge scores. Those over 65 and those who had not attended college had knowledge gains at least has high as those in other groups. There were no statistically significant differences by age or education in patient assessment of the importance of using DAs. Conclusions: Patients in primary care settings in the U.S. learn from DAs, rate them highly, and believe that providers should make them available in ways that are mainly independent of patient age or formal education.","PeriodicalId":402902,"journal":{"name":"the International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123697915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Persons Caring For Persons: A Public Health Policy Architecturally Presented","authors":"Fernando Carbone-Campoverde","doi":"10.5750/IJPCM.V5I3.543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/IJPCM.V5I3.543","url":null,"abstract":"Background: In 2001 a number of limitations and inconsistencies were noted in the Peruvian national health system. In addition to long-standing structural issues, challenges emerged related to social determinants of health as well as health workers’ attitudes and skills. Objectives: The purpose of this paper is to describe some of the national health policy changes that the Ministry of Health of Peru considered necessary in 2002 to address the prevailing challenges and the particular implementation of such policies. Methods: The formulation of the desired national health policy changes were based on critical readings of the pertinent scientific literature, the collation of national health policy experience, and consultations with Ministry officers and recognized national experts. Results : The thrust of the national health policy changes, involving the crucial relationship between service providers and users resulting from such process was summarized by the dictum “Persons Caring for Persons” (In Spanish, “Personas que Atendemos Personas”). In order to extend the impact of this policy dictum, it was decided to inscribe it right under the Ministry’s name on the facade or frontispiece of the Ministry’s central building in Lima, the capital of Peru. Discussion : The focus of health care on persons was based on well considered Peruvian and international experience, particularly those maturing at the World Health Organization since the Alma Ata Declaration. The dictum “Persons Caring for Persons” has remained present in national health discussions as well as on the frontispiece of the Ministry’s central building across several changes in national political leadership over the past 13 years. Conclusions: The policy statement “Persons Caring for Persons”, reflects well considered national experience and wisdom, consistent with growing international aspirations. Its endurance over many years calls for renewed efforts to deepen such perspectives towards greater respect for human rights and the full humanization of health care and social life.","PeriodicalId":402902,"journal":{"name":"the International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116806376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Postmodern View of Evidence-based Medicine (EBM)","authors":"Brian Walsh","doi":"10.5750/IJPCM.V5I3.530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/IJPCM.V5I3.530","url":null,"abstract":"Some readers of EBM believe they are ascertaining what really is the case. This is modern thinking, reflecting the enlightenment. This paper presents a postmodern approach: EBM is depicted as image. Some categories have collapsed into each other: there is no longer a clear dividing line between what suits the doctor and what suits the patient, or between EBM and medicine commercialization and capitalism, which gets little mention in a research paper. The postmodern self of the experimental subject or the patient is not depicted as stable, integrated and rational. This has implications, particularly for psychological medicine and for training of doctors. The complex results of complex studies are amalgamated through meta-analyses, and their presentation in multiply-edited papers in high-impact international journals enhances the image of EBM and verges into rhetoric. Even so, these ideas have been challenged: postmodern theorists have given up too soon on such struggles as justice. The eschewing of universal principles easily drifts into “anything goes”.","PeriodicalId":402902,"journal":{"name":"the International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130277168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applicability, Internal Structure, and basic Patterns of a Multicultural Brief Quality of Life Measure in a Sample of Psychiatric Patients with Comorbid Substance Use Disorders","authors":"I. Salloum, J. Mezzich, L. Kirisci","doi":"10.5750/IJPCM.V5I3.519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5750/IJPCM.V5I3.519","url":null,"abstract":"Background: The measurement of quality of life as estimate of well being is assuming increasing importance in the evaluation of health and treatment efficacy. Objectives: The aim of this study is to evaluate the applicability, internal structure and clinical patterns of the Multicultural Quality of Life Index (MQLI), a brief, self-rated, culturally informed, quality of life scale, in patients experiencing comorbid psychiatric and substance use disorders. Methods: Sixty-two consecutively admitted outpatients completed the MQLI. With this data, the applicability, internal consistency, factorial structure, and prediction of treatment adherence over a three-month period were assessed. Results: It was found that the MQLI was easy to administer. It had good internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha 0.89). Factor analysis revealed that the first factor explained 53% of the variance, indicating the unidimensionality of the instrument around quality of life. Two MQLI items, interpersonal functioning and the availability of supports, significantly predicted treatment adherence. Conclusions: The MQLI is easy to use, it has a coherent structure, and is clinically useful in psychiatric patients with comorbid substance use disorders.","PeriodicalId":402902,"journal":{"name":"the International Journal of Person-Centered Medicine","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128382853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}