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Can illness beliefs, from the common-sense model, prospectively predict adherence to self-management behaviours? A systematic review and meta-analysis

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Aujla, N., Walker, M., Sprigg, N., Abrams, K., Massey, A. and Vedhara, K. (2016) Can illness beliefs, from the common-sense model, prospectively predict adherence to self-management behaviours? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychology & Health, 31 (8). pp. 931-958.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2016.1153640

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Abstract

Objective: To determine whether people’s beliefs about their illness, conceptualised by the common sense model (CSM), can prospectively predict adherence to self-management behaviours (including, attendance, medication, diet and exercise) in adults with acute and chronic physical illnesses.

Design and Main Outcome Measures: Electronic databases were searched in September 2014, for papers specifying the use of the ‘CSM’ in relation to ‘self-management’, ‘rehabilitation’ and ‘adherence’ in the context of physical illness. Six hundred abstracts emerged. Data from 52 relevant studies were extracted. Twenty-one studies were meta-analysed, using correlation coefficients in random effects models. The remainder were descriptively synthesised.

Results: The effect sizes for individual illness belief domains and adherence to self-management behaviours ranged from .04 to .13, indicating very weak, predictive relationships. Further analysis revealed that predictive relationships did not differ by the: type of self-management behaviour; acute or chronic illness; or duration of follow-up.

Conclusion: Individual illness belief domains, outlined by the CSM, did not predict adherence to self-management behaviours in adults with physical illnesses. Prospective relationships, controlling for past behaviour, also did not emerge. Other factors, including patients’ treatment beliefs and inter-relationships between individual illness beliefs domains, may have influenced potential associations with adherence to self-management behaviours.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science
Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Patient compliance, Health, Common sense, Diet, Exercise, Medical appointments and schedules -- Patients -- Attendance, Systematic reviews (Medical research)
Journal or Publication Title: Psychology & Health
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 0887-0446
Official Date: 28 March 2016
Dates:
DateEvent
28 March 2016Published
24 February 2016Available
7 February 2016Accepted
June 2014Submitted
Date of first compliant deposit: 10 February 2017
Volume: 31
Number: 8
Page Range: pp. 931-958
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder: University of Nottingham

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