Self-Management Support Aids

1. Goal Setting, Action Plans and Motivational Tools

0 Helping Patients Manage Their Chronic Conditions, Thomas Bodenheimer, MD, Kate 
    MacGregor, MPH, Claire Sharifi, June 2005, Prepared for the California Healthcare
    Foundation. http://www.chcf.org/publications/2005/06/helping-patients-manage-their-chronic-conditions 

0 Elicit-Provide-Elicit

0 Stages of Change

0 Personal Action Plan

0 Health Coach 4 Me.  Interactive health coaching Web site providing people with tools to
   help them achieve important health goals.

0 Decision Balance for Changing Behavior.  Using the tool to decide to increase exercise. 

        0 Ask Me 3    Three simple questions patients should know:
                     1.  What is my main problem?
                     2.  What do I need to do?
                     3.  Why is it important for me to do this?

0 Motivating Change Online Programs.  Kaiser Permanente Regional Health Education
    Online Learning. Included are modules on medication adherence, brief negotiation,
    pediatric overweight and chronic conditions including diabetes, hypertension, CHF,  
    asthma, and others.

0 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Behavioral counseling in primary care to promote 
    physical activity: recommendations and rational, 2002. 
     http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/index.html 

2. Self Management Programs

0 PATH (Personal Action Toward Health) - Michigan PATH is an evidence-based 
   chronic disease self-management workshop for uninsured/underinsured people 
   Michigan Partners on the Path are dedicated to helping those with chronic diseases in  
   Michigan manage those diseases. http://www.mipath.org/
                  
0 Michigan Path Program Locator.  Locate diabetes and chronic disease classes by zip
    code.

0 Stanford Self-Management Programs
- http://patienteducation.stanford.edu/programs/

3. Group Visits

0 Group Visit Starter Kit.  Improving Chronic Illness Care

 

4. Health Literacy and Culturally Appropriate Health
     Care

0 Health Literacy Resources  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  Cultural Competency and Health Literacy Resources for Health Care Providers  http://www.hrsa.gov/culturalcompetence/

Tools and Processes for Self-Assessment. National Center for Cultural Competence. 
    Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development -     
        Http://nccc.georgetown.edu/foundations/assessment.html

0 Health Literacy Kit, American Medical Association – http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/about-
        ama/ama-foundation/our-programs/public-health/health-literacy-program.shtml

0 Health Literacy and Safety: Help Patients Understand, Second Edition, Barry D. Weiss, MD, American Medical Association – http://www.ama-ssn.org/ama1/pub/upload/mm/367/healthlitclinicians. pdf

0 Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, US Department of Health and
    Human Services – http://www.health.gov/healthliteracyonline/

0 Healthy Roads Media - http://www.healthyroadsmedia.org/ 

0 Quick Guide to Health Literacy and Older Adults. US Department of Health and Human    Services  http://www.health.gov/communication/literacy/olderadults/literacy.htm