Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP)
The Chronic Disease Self-Management Program, also know widely as CDSMP, is a six week workshop designed to empower patients living with a chronic condition by improving their skills in medical, role, and emotional management. It is one of the most well-studied, evidence-based self-management programs available, backed up by over 20 years of federally-funded research. It is also one of the most highly-adopted self-management programs worldwide, offered by numerous organizations in at least 19 countries. Over time is has been adapted for specific diseases. Subjects covered in the general CDSMP workshop include:
- Techniques to deal with problems such as frustration, fatigue, pain and isolation
- Appropriate exercise for maintaining and improving strength, flexibility, and endurance
- Appropriate use of medications
Communicating effectively with family, friends, and health professionals- Nutrition
- Decision making
- How to evaluate new treatments
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Tomando Control de Su Salud
What People are Saying
This workshop and the leaders guided and help me eased my anxiety. The class interaction was a plus. The Weekly Action Plan made me accountable and motivated me to succeed. I look forward to going to class.
Program Details
Settings/Facilities
Community settings such as senior centers, churches, libraries and hospitals
Duration
6 2.5-hr sessions, 1 x week over six weeks
Program Costs
$1000-$1700 to train one Master Trainer, less to train as leader in the community (as priced by the community organization offering the training); License fee of $500-$1500
Costs Include
Licensing, program materials, leader stipends
Outcomes
Participants demonstrated significant improvements in exercise, cognitive symptom management, communication with physicians, self-reported general health, health distress, fatigue, disability, and social/role activities limitations. They also spent fewer days in the hospital, and there was also a trend toward fewer outpatients visits and hospitalizations. These data yield a cost to savings ratio of approximately 1:4. Many of these results persist for as long as three years.
Materials
Participant book: Living a Healthy Life with Chronic Conditions
Staffing
Workshops are facilitated by two trained leaders, one or both of whom are non-health professionals with chronic diseases themselves.
Individual vs. Group
Small Group
Mode
In-person
Data Requirements
Annual report on number of worksops and number of people served.
Languages
30+ including: Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Hmong, Hindi, Russing, Portuguese, French, Vietnamese, Arabic, Creale Haitian, Finnish, Danish, Samoan, Tongan.
