"The effect of a person-centred and strength-based health intervention on recovery among people with chronic illness", 2018, Heggdal et al

[Kalliope]

The effect of a person-centred and strength-based health intervention on recovery among people with chronic illness

Am not able to read this study today, but browsed it, and when I found this, decided to post it here in case someone here can and will go through this more thoroughly.

Beyond the medical, interventions to facilitate personal and life recovery in chronic illness are scarce and are for the most part designed for patients with mental health problems. For instance, the Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) seeks to identify and utilize patient resources to facilitate recovery and the Illness Management and Recovery intervention (IMR) aims to help users to mitigate vulnerabilities and stressors by building social support, using medication effectively and developing a relapse prevention plan [3,11,12]. These interventions resemble the services commonly offered at Community Mental Health Centres (CMHC) in Norway [13]. Interventions to facilitate personal recovery in chronic somatic illness are often disease-specific; these include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) and Adaptive Pacing Therapy (APT), which focus on recovery from chronic fatigue syndrome [14].

The study was enthusiastically presented this month in a journal for nurses as good news, for now patients will chronic illnesses will get a new treatment offer. Based on "body-knowledging".

Sykepleien: Kronisk syke kan få det bedre med nytt helsetilbud
google translate: Chronically ill can get better with new health care

 

[Esther12]

Seemed there was no control group... stopped reading.

That article promoting it was a bit worrying.

 

[Kalliope]

So they have gathered a group of people with different chronic illnesses, presented them with the concept of "body-knowleding" - whatever that is - and interpreted that some of them felt better after a while to the intervention.

 

[Trish]

They do like their jargon:

The intervention we employed was grounded in Bodyknowledging theory [21,22] which asserts that individuals living with health problems over the long term possess bodily knowledge that constitutes an important resource for coping, recovery and health. Theoretical inspiration was also drawn from Antonovsky’s [23] theory of health as a dynamic continuum and from MerleauPonty’s [24] phenomenological theory of the body as a foundation for knowledge and existence.

The Bodyknowledging model illuminates how the patient’s bodily knowledge develops through a dynamic and non-linear process of learning and health-related change in interaction with the environment [25]. This unique but undervalued knowledge is recognized and strengthened through the person’s engagement in the intervention and through dialogue with health professionals and peers.

When in fact all it seems to be is a exercises and a bit of diary keeping and chat.

The Bodyknowledging Programme (BKP) comprises 7 sessions over a 4-month period, conducted in groups of 5 to 8 participants and led by 2 health professionals (nurses, physiotherapists or occupational therapists) with specialized training in the BKP. User participation is a necessary precondition for completing the programme and patients are encouraged to share their health-related challenges, explore their recovery strategies and engage in the group process. The programme reported here included physical exercises that focus on breathing, balance and movement and participants were asked to choose a weekly activity and to write a diary. A textbook on the Bodyknowledging model (with questions) served as a guide to personal work on recovery. The group also reflected on the questions in the next session.

 

[ScottTriGuy]

I majored in psychology in university, and took a lot of sociology courses too - in part because essays didn't require a lot of research, and I could just make shit like this up.

 

[Sean]

Round and round the buzzword bush we go.

 

[NelliePledge]

So what’s the difference between body knowledging and the U.K. CFS/ME clinics “Management programmes”. None - sounds exactly like what I did in 2016. PACE-lite.