The following guides are intended for use by:

• General Practitioners

• other health care providers

• health services

• community groups

The guides provide:

• background information on self-management and self-management support

• the strategies and tools of self-management support

• a series of case studies that illustrate the range of self-management support strategies and models that evolved on Eyre Peninsula over the last decade

• the general learnings and models that emerged from the case studies

Supporting Chronic Disease Self-Management, Experience from South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula

GP Guide – Supporting Chronic Disease Self-Management/accessed via a link ‘Incorporating self-management support into General Practice

Implementing a Community-based Chronic Disease Self Management Support Centre, A guide based on the experience from the ‘In Our Hands’ Health Information and Resource Centre

These resources, produced in 2007, were funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aging.

• Sleep Assessment
• Sleep Diary
• Facts & Hygiene
• Relaxation Therapy

• Stimulus Control Therapy
• Bedtime Restriction Therapy
• Bright Light Therapy
• Sleep Medication

• DASS (Depression Anxiety Stress Scale)
• K10 (Kessler 10)
  Print the questions out for the patient to answer with a pen. Click their answers on the computer screen. When you have clicked in all their answers, click on the Calculate button. The scores are displayed and the text below explains their significance. Repeating the questionnaire at a later date showing lower scores can be very reassuring to doctor and patient.
• Blood Pressure Record
• Medication Record
• Cardiovascular Disease Risk Calculator
  Have you ever got a cholesterol result back and couldn't decide from the result whether to treat or not? One has to consider not just the total cholesterol result but the patient's age, the HDL, the blood pressure, whether they smoke, whether they have diabetes, and the family history. The New Zealand calculator with the coloured squares is one way of doing this.
  
  The following calculator (based on the Framingham data) which uses all the above information (except family history) and tells you the 10 and 5 year risk as well as the exact NNT (number needed to treat). If the NNT is less than 25 you treat, otherwise review when the patient is a bit older. The calculator also displays the 10 year risk if the patient stopped smoking, lowered their BP, lowered their cholesterol or all three. This can be very useful for motivating the patient. The result can be printed out & handed to the patient in the consult.

• Doctors' Health Advisory Service South Australia 08 8273 4111
• Bush Crisis Line 1800 805 391
• Medical Benevolent Association 08 8267 4355
• Medical Board of South Australia08 8362 7811