Translating Chronic Illness Research into Practice

by Kralik, Debbie; Paterson, Barbara; Coates, Vivien

• ISBN13: 9781405159654
• ISBN10: 1405159650
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-22
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Translating Chronic Illness Research into Practice presents recent developments in chronic illness research and their implications for clinical practice. It delivers both a synthesis and a critique of current chronic illness research and its applications to chronic illness prevention, treatment and care. It promotes advances in knowledge about chronic illness, including discussion of the future directions for chronic illness research and gaps in present knowledge about effective chronic illness prevention, treatment and care.Key features: Contains contributions from internationally renowned researchers in chronic illness Focuses on three key concepts, translating research into practice, chronic illness and practice, and bridges the boundaries between them Is applicable to an international, multi-disciplinary readership For researchers and practitioners across health disciplines

Author Biography

Debbie Kralik is General Manager, Strategy and Research at the Royal District Nursing Service in South Australia and Professor, University of South Australia and Adelaide University
Barbara Paterson is Professor of Nursing and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in the Faculty of Nursing, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Vivien Coates is Professor of Nursing Research, School of Nursing, University of Ulster and Assistant Director of Nursing, Western Health & Social Care Trust (Joint appointment)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Globalisation of Chronic Illness Research	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
What is in a name?	p. 2
Global crisis in chronic illness	p. 3
Impact of chronic illness in developing nations	p. 4
Trends in chronic illness research in developed nations	p. 6
Policy drivers: taking action	p. 8
Global initiatives for future chronic illness management	p. 10
Conclusion	p. 12
References	p. 12
Transitional Processes and Chronic Illness	p. 17
Introduction	p. 17
The search	p. 18
Defining Transition	p. 19
An emerging understanding of transition	p. 19
Describing transition	p. 21
Transition and identity	p. 22
Transition and transformative learning	p. 24
Transitional processes	p. 25
A transition framework for practice	p. 26
Conclusion	p. 32
References	p. 33
Translating Chronic Illness Research Across the Lifespan	p. 37
Introduction	p. 37
Human development across the lifespan	p. 39
Key assumptions of the lifespan developmental perspective	p. 40
Human development in old age	p. 42
Applications of lifespan developmental perspectives in chronic illness research	p. 46
Supporting age-appropriate development without jeopardising the safe management of serious chronic disease: the case of cystic fibrosis	p. 47
Chronic illness in old age: providing developmentally appropriate integrity-promoting care to persons suffering from dementia	p. 50
Conclusions and implications	p. 52
References	p. 53
Assisting People with Chronic Illness to Manage Co-Morbid Conditions	p. 57
Introduction	p. 57
Conceptualising co-morbidity	p. 58
Social determinants of co-morbidities	p. 60
The medical paradigm	p. 61
Health-care systems	p. 65
Co-morbidity management	p. 68
Models of chronic illness management	p. 69
Conclusion	p. 74
References	p. 75
Conceptualisation of Self-Management	p. 85
Introduction	p. 85
Background to the use of the term self-management	p. 86
Historical developments in self-management	p. 88
Associated concepts or models that overlap with or inform self-management	p. 92
Alternative definitions of self-management	p. 101
Conclusions: the future for chronic condition self-management	p. 105
References	p. 105
The Relevance of Self-Management Programmes for People with Chronic Disease at Risk for Disease-Related Complications	p. 111
Introduction	p. 111
Background	p. 112
Theoretical framework	p. 114
Overview of relevant research	p. 115
Sample	p. 115
Participation	p. 118
Attrition	p. 118
Discussion	p. 120
Conclusion	p. 125
References	p. 137
The Potential of Technology for Providing Social Support to People and Families	p. 143
Introduction	p. 143
Background	p. 143
The Internet as a health resource	p. 144
Impact of advanced technology in fostering therapeutic gain: overview of relevant research	p. 146
Social support delivery: considerations in selecting advanced technology methods	p. 156
Into the virtual future...	p. 157
References	p. 158
Chronic Illness Research: Translating What We Know into What We Do	p. 163
Introduction	p. 163
The task ahead	p. 164
The dose-response problem	p. 166
The Promise of research	p. 168
Knowledge translation: emerging from naïveté	p. 170
Embedding KT within research agencies and grants	p. 173
Web-based KT innovations	p. 174
What chronic illness research gets taken up?	p. 174
Policy containers and the future of chronic illness	p. 179
The future of chronic illness: systems change using stroke examples	p. 181
Conclusion	p. 189
References	p. 191
Future Directions	p. 199
Global Perspective	p. 199
Facilitating the will of the people	p. 200
The evidence base	p. 201
Technology and health promotion	p. 201
Transition	p. 202
Self-management and self-care	p. 203
Health in the community	p. 203
References	p. 204
Index	p. 205
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