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Table 1 Goal management intervention versus disease-specific self-management interventions

From: A goal management intervention for polyarthritis patients: rationale and design of a randomized controlled trial

Difference in:

Disease-specific self-management intervention

Goal management intervention

Aim of intervention

Control and management of disease

Maximizing psychological health, social and physical functioning

Focus / approach

Reductionist

Holistic

Perspective

Patient-centered (disease-specific orientation) | Outsiders’ perspective (disease)

Person-focused (body systems are interrelated) | Insider’s perspective (illness)

Content

Disease-specific

Multiple-related diseases | Not disease-specific

Subject-matter

Predetermination of course content

Room for personal problems and difficulties

Acquisition of

Specific competencies for predetermined assumed problems

General multi-deployable competencies

  1. Based on: Starfield, 2011 [34]; Lorig & Holman, 2003 [26]; and Stuifbergen et al., 2010 [2].