Resources
Research
Last updated 28th June 2023
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- Chronic illness self-management: taking action to create order
- Evidence: Helping people help themselves. A review of the evidence considering whether it is worthwhile to support self-management
- Resilience in the chronic illness experience
- Self-management education programmes led by lay leaders for people with chronic health conditions
- The meaning of self‐care for people with chronic illness
- Chronic illness self-management: taking action to create order
- Chronic illness self-management: Locating the 'self'
Pain self management should be about team work, working together to form a partnership
Pain self management is about learning new (or using old) skills, trying them out and to see what works for you. Pain is like a finger print, so each person may need to have individual skills to suit them.