INSEA - Self-management program "Healthy and active living"

Project management

Dr. Gabriele Seidel, Prof. Dr. Marie-Luise Dierks

Duration

10/2014-02/2018
03/2018-06/2025

Project sponsor

BARMER
Robert Bosch Foundation

Institutions

Institute of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Public Health Research, MHH
Careum / Switzerland (EVIVO network)
SeKo Bayern

Research Associate

Anabel Bornemann
Marius Hartmann
Franciska Hermanns
Antje Meyer

The National Network INSEA "Healthy and Active Living" aims to establish a self-management program for people with chronic diseases in Germany. The program is a standardized course with a fixed course program and an evaluated accompanying book, which is based on the proven "Chronic Disease Self-Management Program" (CDSMP) of Stanford University (USA). INSEA is sponsored by Careum (CH), where the program is already being successfully implemented under the name EVIVO. The "Healthy and Active Living" self-management program is suitable for all illnesses, i.e. for people with both physical and mental illnesses. People who are able and interested in being together with other people for two and a half hours at a time once a week over a period of six weeks can take part.

A prerequisite for the successful implementation of the program and for broad dissemination is also that interested people with and without chronic illnesses are recruited and trained as course leaders. They should be able to run a course in tandem with another course leader trained in the project. The course leaders, i.e. people who are open to other people and who are able to run a course in a socially competent manner, are trained by two certified trainers in 4-day courses.

The aims of the project are to set up, organize and manage the national coordination office for the "Healthy and Active Living" self-management programme and to implement two locations for the "Healthy and Active Living" self-management programme. A national coordination office is currently being set up at Hannover Medical School (MHH); the first implementation sites are the Self-Help Contact Points (SeKo) Bayern e.V. and the Patient University at the MHH, with further sites in Germany to be added successively.

To this end, committees and institutions are being set up at various levels:

National Coordination Center

The national coordination office is to develop the structures for a nationwide implementation of the self-management program. This includes

• Acquiring further model locations within and outside the self-help sector,
• establishing structures for the qualification of course leaders and the implementation of self-management courses,
• creating synergies in the work of those involved in the project through networking, information exchange, joint evaluation strategies and joint public relations work.

Model locations

Two model locations (Lower Saxony and Bavaria) were launched at the start of the project. A third model location was added at the beginning of 2016: "Das Gesunde Kinzigtal". Their tasks include

• Establishing structures for the organization of self-management training courses,
• recruiting instructors for the self-management training courses,
• to recruit chronically ill patients and relatives
• to conduct self-management courses.

Steering group

The steering group, in which all those involved in the project work together, has the task of building up a network within Germany and supporting the transfer of knowledge within the project. In addition, an international network is to be established and promoted.

Further information can be found at https://www.insea-aktiv.de/.