Individual & Community factors influencing multimorbidity management
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Multimorbidity in the context Of Socioeconomic deprivation: An exploration of how Individual and Community factors interact to influence patient capacity to manage Multimorbidity
IRAS ID
272255
Contact name
Marianne R McCallum
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Duration of Study in the UK
2 years, 1 months, 10 days
Research summary
Managing illnesses can be hard work: we know some people find it easier than others and that the community you live in can make a difference. Having support from friends and family, transport or knowing how to cope with illness are all important but we don’t know whether they are more important for some people than others.
People living in areas experiencing socio-economic deprivation are more likely to struggle to manage their illnesses. We want to identify the support or resources they use, or could use, and how what the community thinks about health, impacts how they manage illness.
To understand this we will recruit, and interview, via local GP surgeries, 30 patients who have at least three long-term conditions.We will explore personal and community factors that support, or prevent, them managing their illnesses. All the patients will come from Drumchapel, an area in the West of Scotland that experiences a high level of socioeconomic deprivation.
12-18 months after the original interviews we will hold two focus group discussions (5-10 people in each) with some of the people who participated in the original interviews. During this focus group we will discuss the findings from the original interviews to gain their perspectives of these, discuss their views of community resources that are available to them in Drumchapel as well as what we know about local community health beliefs. We will explore how, if at all, these community resources and health beliefs influence management of their illness.
REC name
West Midlands - Solihull Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
21/WM/0079
Date of REC Opinion
22 Mar 2021
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion