Education for health professionals, for example: | |
· | Initiatives to facilitate change in their asthma attitudes, beliefs and/or behaviours such as professionals actively encouraging patient/carer involvement in asthma decision-making and/or valuing the personal experience of those living with asthma. |
· | Education encouraging professionals to customise asthma action plans with patients/carers and enabling professionals to understand that professionals and patients/carers may have different models of asthma and its management. |
Education for patients/carers, for example: | |
· | Education targeted to the patient’s/carer’s stage in the ‘learning to manage’ process. Includes instruction on medications, recognition of symptoms, avoiding triggers within the context of asthma self-management and the more holistic issues of living with asthma. |
· | Education to encourage patients/carers to actively participate in the joint development/review of their asthma action plans and enabling them to participate in shared decision-making. |
Encouraging partnership working, for example: | |
· | Continuity of asthma care to provide on-going opportunities for asthma education and promoting patient/carer empowerment. |
· | Professionals encouraging good working relationships with patients/carers (for example, by promoting active involvement and shared decision-making within asthma consultations such joint development of action plans). |
· | Initiatives to encourage patients/carers and professionals to understand different models of asthma management. |
Effective communication, for example: | |
· | Professionals actively seeking and listening to patients/carers asthma experiences, their management strategies and asthma anxieties. Professionals offering additional opportunities for patient asthma review. |
· | Professionals responding to the above, for example, through targeting of patient/carers asthma education, encouraging joint development of tailored asthma action plans. |