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CRCAH project No: CD218
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Administering Organisation:
Flinders
University
Program Manager:
Arwen Nikolof
Chronic
Conditions program
Project Leaders:
Inge Kowanko, Peter
Harvey, Malcolm Battersby
Contact:
Inge.Kowanko@flinders.edu.au
Partners Involved:
- Flinders University
- Aboriginal Health Council of SA (AHCSA)
- Three Aboriginal health services (currently being
negotiated)
- CRC for Aboriginal Health
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Project Summary
This project started in January 2008. It is a participatory,
action-oriented project that builds on previous research around
management of chronic conditions in primary health care and
community settings. The methodology is based on collaboration,
flexibility, respect, meeting needs and participation. It will
explore how and why Aboriginal health services currently manage
chronic conditions in their client populations, introduce enhanced
CCM (Chronic Conditions Management) strategies that are known to be
feasible from previous work, support those CCM strategies with
appropriate training, and evaluate their clinical effectiveness and
sustainability over time.
The project employs mixed methods, both qualitative and
quantitative, including interviews, audits of service provision and
costs, repeated clinical measures and self-reports of wellbeing,
integrative analysis and reporting. The goal is to demonstrate
effective and sustainable CCM strategies to inform Aboriginal
health services and communities. It is hoped this will ultimately
lead to improvements in health status for participating
communities.
Summary of Projected Outcomes
The overall goal of the project is to develop and demonstrate
sustainable and effective chronic condition management (CCM)
strategies for Aboriginal communities. This research will explore
the CCM strategies that three participating services currently use,
find out what works well for them and why, and what systems and
supports are required. Then, according to their priorities and
available resources, participating Aboriginal health services will
be offered additional CCM strategies along with associated training
for health service providers and organizational change. The
processes, impacts and outcomes of these CCM
‘interventions’ will be assessed using multiple methods
including interviews with clients and service providers, changes in
health status (clinical measures and self-report), audit of service
provision and costs.
Timeline
The project commenced in January 2008 and finishes in December
2010.
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