The Contribution of Health Education to Chronic Disease Management

Dear Colleagues,

Educational interventions have been effective to improve outcomes in patients with chronic disease. It has been shown effective in patients with hypertension, cardiometabolic disease and cancer. Lifestyle modifications in terms of healthy lifestyle and regular exercise are recognized important in the management of hypertension and cardiometabolic disease. Educational interventions, such as health education, telephone counseling, e-health support in terms of phone text message, web-based support or mobile applications could effectively improve the adherence to lifestyle modifications and improve physical and psychological outcomes. Supportive educational programmes to cancer patients and their caregivers could improve their physical, psychological wellbeing and quality of life. Given the prevalence of cardiometabolic disease and hypertension with the increasing trend in middle- age or early older adult, and the continuous increasing trend of cancer prevalence, timely professional support to self-health management to decrease the development of adverse health complications and cancer care in the community are crucial in health care.

This Special Issue invites original contributions on the use of health education in different modes and contexts to improve chronic disease management. We welcome submissions from any setting, context, and academic discipline that address groups, individuals, or caregivers for chronic disease patients, such as cardiometabolic disease, hypertension, and cancer. We particularly encourage nursing or interdisciplinary research projects. Authors can submit reports of intervention studies on the effectiveness or efficacy of educational interventions on chronic disease outcomes, qualitative reports of intervention studies on experiences and perspectives of the participants and stakeholders involved in the interventions, mixed-methods intervention studies, and reviews of intervention studies. The reviews can cover (but are not limited to) various types of reviews, such as systematic reviews, integrative reviews, umbrella reviews, scoping reviews and narrative reviews of any intervention studies related to lifestyle interventions or innovations in patient education or supportive care for patients with chronic diseases or their caregivers. The Special Issue is interested in studies that target populations who are at risk or have chronic disease such as coronary heart disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, hypertension, and cancer.

Dr. Eliza Wong
Dr. Doris Y. P. Leung
Dr. Hon Lon Tam
Guest Editors

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• health education or educational intervention
• innovation or technology
• chronic disease management
• cardiometabolic disease
• metabolic syndrome
• hypertension
• cancer care
• caregiver