The relationship between self-management abilities, quality of chronic care delivery, and wellbeing among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in The Netherlands

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Table 1 Characteristics of patients participating in disease management programs

	Patients n = 548
Mean age (years)	69.15 ± 10.22 (39–91)
Gender (female)	46%
Marital status (single)	34%
Low educational level	34%
Physical exercise (days per week)	4.71 ± 2.25 (0–7)
Smoking	31%
Quality of chronic care delivery (PACIC)	2.85 ± 0.92 (1–5)
Self-management abilities (SMAS-S)	3.94 ± 0.71 (1–6)
Wellbeing (SPF-IL)	2.77 ± 0.48 (1–4)

Note: Data are expressed as mean ± standard deviation (range) or percentage.

Abbreviations: PACIC, Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care; SMAS-S, Self-Management Ability Scale Short version; SPF-IL, Social Production Function Instrument for the Level of Wellbeing.

Table 2 Associations between wellbeing and individual characteristics, health behaviors, quality of chronic care delivery, and self-management abilities

	Wellbeing	N
Mean age (years)	0.07	530
Gender (female)	−0.08**	528
Marital status (single)	−0.12**	536
Low educational level	−0.11**	536
Physical exercise	0.18***	503
Smoking	−0.08	536
Quality of chronic care delivery (PACIC)	0.29***	509
Self-management abilities (SMAS-S)	0.63***	526

Notes:

*** P ≤ 0.001;

** P ≤ 0.01; (two-tailed).

Abbreviations: PACIC, Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care; SMAS-S, Self-Management Ability scale short version.

Table 3 Relationship between independent variables and wellbeing as assessed by multilevel regression analyses (random intercepts model, n = 470)

	Model 1		Model 2
	β	SE	β	SE
Constant	2.78	0.20	2.77	0.20
Mean age (years)	0.07***	0.20	0.07***	0.20
Gender (female)	−0.02	0.20	−0.03	0.20
Marital status (single)	−0.04*	0.20	−0.03	0.20
Low educational level	−0.05**	0.20	−0.00	0.20
Physical exercise	0.07***	0.20	−0.01	0.20
Smoking	−0.01	0.20	−0.01	0.20
Quality of chronic care delivery (PACIC)	0.13***	0.20	0.09***	0.20
Self-management abilities (SMAS-S)			0.29***	0.20

Notes:

*** P ≤ 0.001;

** P ≤ 0.01;

* P ≤ 0.05 (two-tailed); Listwise deletion of missing cases resulted in the inclusion of 470 cases in the multilevel regression analyses.

Abbreviations: PACIC, Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care; SMAS-S, self-Management Ability scale short version; SE, standard error.