PhD defence
Reducing the chronic disease burden in China
- X. Song
- Date
- Tuesday 6 June 2023
- Time
- Location
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Academy Building
Rapenburg 73
2311 GJ Leiden
Supervisor(s)
- Prof.dr. N.H. Chavannes
Summary
In China, many people suffer from chronic diseases like hypertension and chronic lung disease. Such chronic diseases lead to significant economic and medical burdens. Self-management intervention can help improve the quality of life of people with chronic diseases and reduce the disease burden. But most of the research on self-management intervention has been done in high-income countries, even though over 599 million Chinese people suffer from chronic diseases. It is possible to implement effective self-management interventions in high–income countries for Chinese people with chronic diseases. However, self-management intervention in high-income countries might not work as well in China because of differences in economics and culture. To meet this end, this thesis aimed to tailor a proven-effective self-management intervention tackling chronic lung disease, developed and tested in a high-income country, to the Chinese context. The tailoring steps included (a) identifying the Chinese context, (b) selecting self-management intervention and mode of delivery, (c) identifying factors that influence the self-management intervention implementation, and (d) integrating self-management intervention into the Chinese context. The results in this thesis found that self-management intervention – developed and tested in the Netherlands – could be tailored in China. The tailored self-management intervention could help Chinese people with chronic lung disease improve their health outcomes and reduce the disease burden. Accordingly, the tailored self-management intervention can optimize resource use locally. Other researchers could use the research experience in this thesis to develop other tailored self-management interventions for different cultures or other chronic diseases.
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