WASP Bespoke Support Programme V1
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Using the Wessex Activation and Self-Management (WASP) Tool to design and implement system wide improvements in self-management support for people with long-term conditions.
IRAS ID
269990
Contact name
Mari Carmen Portillo
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Southampton
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 2 months, 10 days
Research summary
Helping people to self-manage their condition helps improve people's health and also their experience of managing the condition in everyday life. People's knowledge, skills and confidence may help them to be more actively involved in self-management of their condition.
The Wessex Activation Self-Management Programme (WASP) Self-Assessment Tool has been developed to help health teams understand where they could do more to help people to more actively manage their condition. The tool can be used by people who use services and people who plan, manage and deliver care. It asks about behaviour- WHAT people actually do, and WHY they do (or don't do) certain things. The answers can help health teams decide how to improve their service. Early findings show differences between the things managers say their service does to support self-management and what is experienced by front line staff (such as nurses and doctors) and patients themselves.
The next stage is to use the tool to help teams identify aspects of support in their service that require improvement, and help services to make these improvements.
We will do this by:
Assessing the services current practice in relation to self-management support, using the Wessex Self-Assessment Tool.
Providing bespoke coaching and support to enable teams (consisting of those who fund the service, managers, front line staff and patients) to identify areas for improvement and support them to make improvements that benefit patients.
Re-assessing self-management support by repeating the WASP Self-Assessment Tool.
Several ways will be used together to decide if this works, how it works and how it can be improved, such as comparing the questionnaire responses before and after the programme, interviewing members of the team before and after the programme and observing the programme sessions. This will help us understand how the coaching and support works and how it can be improved.REC name
South Central - Hampshire A Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
19/SC/0570
Date of REC Opinion
26 Nov 2019
REC opinion
Unfavourable Opinion