Lay Summary

Lay summary

It is increasingly important to develop effective strategies for promoting self-care and self-management by patients and citizens. Governments and healthcare providers seek to develop healthcare systems that guarantee high quality care with a special focus on the ageing population and the increase in chronic diseases. Interventions that enable self-management can provide a solution. COMPAR-EU identifies such interventions and helps patients to find the best solution for their specific condition.

What is COMPAR-EU´s benefits for patients?

COMPAR-EU identifies, compares, and ranks the most efficient and cost-effective self-management interventions (SMIs) including preventive and management ones, for adults with one of the four high-priority chronic conditions: type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), obesity, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and heart failure. The objective of COMPAR-EU is to facilitate shared decision-making in different healthcare contexts. To achieve this, COMPAR-EU project partners offer a library of studies on different SMIs with information about the target groups, methods or interventions used, as well as relevant outcomes of the interventions.

We also incorporated decision aids to help patients understand different preventive and treatment options. Information about each option’s potential benefits and harms help patients determine the interventions that are best fit for them and choose the self-management interventions that consider their personal preferences. These aids are interactive, i.e., users are able to choose from a set of interactive settings the condition (and comorbidities) they are interested in, the key outcomes they want to improve, and contextual or individual factors that might influence the effectiveness of a SMI (gender, geographic area, healthcare system level, etc.).

What are self-management interventions (SMIs)?

Self-management interventions (SMIs) are activities or procedures that aim to improve the way patients self-manage their chronic condition -how they deal with the day-to-day consequences of their condition, and how to reach or maintain an optimal quality of life. The types of SMIs range from the provision of condition-specific information to extensive health programmes. SMIs are important healthcare interventions as they can help to change behaviour and improve health outcomes. They include regular assessment of progress and problems.

The European Patients’ Forum (EPF) contributes to COMPAR-EU, ensuring that the patient perspective is considered in all aspects and stages of the project. Click here to get to know the EPF team. Further information on the tasks that EPF is leading in the project can be found here.

What matters to patients with chronic disaeses when it comes to self-management outcomes?

The project has developed 4 Core Outcome Set (COS) to guide self-management interventions in these diseases and will go on to develop an online decision-making tool for policymakers, researchers, patients, and the healthcare industry.

Read more in our COMPAR-EU lay summary leaflets.

Leaflet on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Leaflet on Heart Failure

Leaflet on Obesity

Leaflet on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM)

Leaflet on Taxonomy

For more detailed information, check out the full lay summaries below.

Lay summary on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Lay summary on Heart Failure

Lay summary on Obesity

Lay summary on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM)

Lay summary on Taxonomy

Check out the full lay summaries in other languages.

COPD

Lay summary on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) – GERMAN

Lay summary on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) – FRENCH

Lay summary on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) – HUNGARIAN

Lay summary on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) – IRISH

Lay summary on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) – ITALIAN

Lay summary on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) – MALTESE

Lay summary on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) – POLISH

Lay summary on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) – ROMANIAN

Lay summary on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) – SPANISH

HEART FAILURE

Lay summary on Heart Failure – DUTCH

Lay summary on Heart Failure – GERMAN

Lay summary on Heart Failure – FRENCH

Lay summary on Heart Failure – HUNGARIAN

Lay summary on Heart Failure – IRISH

Lay summary on Heart Failure – ITALIAN

Lay summary on Heart Failure – MALTESE

Lay summary on Heart Failure – POLISH

Lay summary on Heart Failure – ROMANIAN

Lay summary on Heart Failure – SPANISH

OBESITY

Lay summary on Obesity – DUTCH

Lay summary on Obesity – GERMAN

Lay summary on Obesity – FRENCH

Lay summary on Obesity – HUNGARIAN

Lay summary on Obesity – IRISH

Lay summary on Obesity – ITALIAN

Lay summary on Obesity – MALTESE

Lay summary on Obesity – POLISH

Lay summary on Obesity – ROMANIAN

Lay summary on Obesity – SPANISH

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Lay summary on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) – DUTCH

Lay summary on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) – GERMAN

Lay summary on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) – FRENCH

Lay summary on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) – HUNGARIAN

Lay summary on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) – IRISH

Lay summary on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) – ITALIAN

Lay summary on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) – MALTESE

Lay summary on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) – POLISH

Lay summary on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) – ROMANIAN

Lay summary on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) – SPANISH

TAXONOMY

Lay summary on Taxonomy – DUTCH

Lay summary on Taxonomy – GERMAN

Lay summary on Taxonomy – FRENCH

Lay summary on Taxonomy – HUNGARIAN

Lay summary on Taxonomy – IRISH

Lay summary on Taxonomy – ITALIAN

Lay summary on Taxonomy – MALTESE

Lay summary on Taxonomy – POLISH

Lay summary on Taxonomy – ROMANIAN

Lay summary on Taxonomy – SPANISH

Lay summary on Taxonomy – CATALAN