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Sustaining the benefits of structured education: Participants' experiences of receiving structured individual support
Ruth I Hart1, David Rankin1, Paul M Chadwick2
1Usher Institute, Medical School, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Aims:
The DAFNEplus programme seeks to promote sustained improvements in glycaemic management by incorporating techniques from behavioural science. It includes five sessions of structured individual support delivered over 12 months following group education. As part of a broader evaluation, and to inform decision-making about roll-out in routine care, we explored participants' experiences of, and engagement with, that individual support.
Methods:
We interviewed DAFNEplus participants (n = 28) about their experiences of receiving individual support and the impact they perceived it as having on their self management practices. We analysed data thematically.
Results:
Participants described several important ways individual support had helped strengthen their self management, including: consolidating and expanding their understandings of flexible intensive insulin therapy; promoting ongoing review and refinement of behaviour; encouraging continued and effective use of data; and facilitating access to help from healthcare professionals to pre-empt or resolve emergent difficulties. Participants characterised themselves as moving towards independence in self management over the time they received individual support, with their accounts suggesting three key stages in that journey: 'Working with healthcare professionals'; 'Growing sense of responsibility'; and, 'Taking control'. Whilst all portrayed themselves as changed, participants' progress through those stages varied; a few continued to depend heavily on DAFNEplus facilitators for advice and/or direction at 12 months.
Conclusions:
While all participants benefited from individual support, our findings suggest that some may need, or gain further benefit from, longer-term, tailored support. This has important implications for decision-making about roll-out of DAFNEplus post-trial and for the development of future programmes seeking to bring about sustainable changes in self management practices.
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