Periodic Reporting for period 3 - MOBILIZE (Improving health in people with multimorbidity: a paradigm shift in health care from disease-based curative models to personalized exercise therapy and self-management)
Período documentado: 2022-08-01 hasta 2024-01-31
The healthcare system and most research focus on one medical condition at a time, and treatment plans often fail to take a holistic perspective. We know from qualitative research that treating one condition at a time is inconvenient, inefficient and unsatisfactory for the person with the chronic conditions as well as his or her healthcare provider. Research on effective treatment of multimorbidity is lacking. The MOBILIZE project is going to change that.
The aim of the MOBILIZE project is to empower patients with multimorbidity to take a more active role in their healthcare so that they may increase quality of life and physical function, reduce symptoms of the individual conditions, and prevent development of other chronic conditions. The project is going to develop and evaluate the effects of a tailored exercise therapy and self-management support program in addition to current best practice on self-reported, objectively measured and physiological outcomes in people with multimorbidity (i.e. at least two of the following conditions: knee or hip osteoarthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease (heart failure or coronary heart disease), hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, depression). The project will provide new insight into which treatment is the most effective and develop a plan for implementation. This will be essential to ensure the best possible treatment for this large and growing group of patients and can potentially have a large societal impact.