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Commentary
Adult nursing
Health mind mapping has the potential to facilitate patient engagement in self-management of long-term conditions
  1. Jan Pringle
  1. Correspondence to Dr Jan Pringle, Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy, University of Edinburgh Division of Health Sciences, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK; jpringl2{at}exseed.ed.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebnurs-2018-103011

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    Commentary on: de la Vega PB, Coe C, Paasche-Orlow MK et al. ‘It’s like a mirror image of my illness’: exploring patient perceptions about illness using health mind mapping—a qualitative study. J Gen Intern Med. 2018 Jul 10. doi: 10.1007/s11606-018-4557-9.

    Implications for practice and research

    • Practitioners who understand their patients’ explanatory model of illness and daily lived experiences may be better placed to offer effective, personalised support.

    • Health mind mapping can increase practitioners’ and patients’ understanding of their situation.

    • Further research using health mind mapping as an aid to self-management and understanding of patient perspectives is warranted.

    Context

    Increasing numbers of people are living in the community with long-term conditions such as type 2 diabetes; these patients may face many self-management challenges, particularly if …

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    Footnotes

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Not required.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.