Harkness Project Title: Chronic Disease Self Management Programs: Scope of Programs and What Works for Whom in the U.S.?
Mentor: Michael Von Korff, Sc.D., and Edward H. Wagner, M.D., FACP, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound
Placement: Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound
Biography at time of Harkness Fellowship: Malcolm Battersby, a 2003-04 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy, is senior lecturer in psychiatry at Flinders University and director of the Flinders Human Behaviour and Health Research Unit. He was a chief investigator of the SA HealthPlus Coordinated Care trial in South Australia. Battersby has a strong interest in behavior change, at both the patient and the clinician level. He has worked extensively with general practitioners and other health professionals to develop a generic assessment and care planning approach for clinicians to assist patients with self management of chronic conditions (The Flinders Model). He has also established the Master of Mental Health Science course in the use of cognitive and behavioral therapy for anxiety, depression and other conditions. His research has included the development of the Partners in Health scale to measure self management capacity, and four projects in aboriginal diabetes, respiratory, cardiac and mental illness communities as part of the South Australian Chronic Disease Self-Management program. He has provided a report on recommended actions for the self-management component of the Australian National Chronic Disease Strategy. Battersby was recently awarded a National Health and Medical Research Council grant with the Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia for the Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Aboriginal Health. He has been appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Chronic Illness.
Current Position: Professor of Psychiatry, Flinders University. (Updated July 2011)
E-Mail: Malcolm.battersby@flinders.edu.au
Harkness-Related Publications
Crotty, M., Prendergast, J., Battersby, M., Rowett, D., Graves, S., Leach, G. & Giles, G. (2009) "Self-management and peer support among people with arthritis on a hospital joint replacement waiting list: A randomized controlled list." Osteoarthritis & Cartilage, 17, 1428-1433.
Lawn, S., Battersby, M., Lindner, H., Mathews, R., Morris, S., Wells, L., et al. (2009). "What skills do primary health care professionals need to provide effective self-management support?: A consumer perspective." Australian Journal of Primary Health, 15, 37-44.
Pols, R. G., Battersby, M. W., Regan-Smith, M., Markwick, M. J., Lawrence, J., Auret, K., Carter, J., Cole, A., Disler, P., Hassed, C., McGuiness, C. & Nguyen, H. (2009) “Chronic condition self-management support: proposed competencies for medical students.” Chronic Illness, 5, 7-14
Battersby, M., Hoffmann, S., Cadilhac, D., Osborne, R., Lalor, E., & Lindley, R. (2009). “‘Getting your life back on track after stroke’ A Phase 2 Multi Centred, Single Blind, Randomised Controlled Trail (RCT) of the Stroke Self-Management Program (SSMP) Vs the Stanford Chronic Condition Self Management Program (CCSMP) or Standard Care in Stroke Survivors.” International Journal of Stroke, 4(2) 137-44.
Battersby, M. W., J. Ah Kit, C. Prideaux, P. W. Harvey, J. P. Collins and P. D. Mills (2008). "Implementing the Flinders Model of self-management support with Aboriginal people who have diabetes: findings from a pilot study." Australian Journal of Primary Health 14(1): 66-74d Care in Stroke Survivors. International Journal of Stroke, 4(2) 137-44.
Harvey, P. W., J. Petkov, G. Misan, K. Warren, J. Fuller, M. Battersby, N. Cayetano and P. Holmes (2008 ). "Self-management support and training for patients with chronic and complex conditions improves health related behaviour and health outcomes." Australian Health Review 32(2): 330- 338.
Lawn, S., M. Battersby, R. G. Pols, J. Lawrence, T. Parry and M. Urukalo (2007). "The mental health expert patient: Findings from a pilot study of a generic chronic condition self-management programme for people with mental illness." International Journal of Social Psychiatry 53(1): 63-74.
Battersby, M. (2007). "Das selbstmanagement - Model der Flinders University" Managed Care 2: 23-26.
Battersby M, Harvey P, Mills PD, Kalucy E, Pols RG, Frith PA, McDonald P, Esterman A, Tsourtos G, Donato R, Pearce R, McGowan C. “SA HealthPlus: A Controlled Trial of a Statewide Application of a Generic Model of Chronic Illness Care,” The Milbank Quarterly 2007; 85(1):37-67.
Pols, R. G., M. W. Battersby (2006). "Chronic condition self-management: Is there a need for a specific curriculum for medical students?" Medical Education 40: 719-721.
Regan-Smith, M., K. Hirschmann, W. Iobst and M. W. Battersby (2006). "Teaching residents chronic disease management using the Flinders model." Journal of Cancer Education 21(2): 60-62.
Battersby, M. W. and S. H. P. team (2005). "Health reform through coordinated care: SA HealthPlus." BMJ 330(7492): 662-665.
Battersby M, Report on Collaboratives for Chronic Illness Care Implementation in Primary Care to the South Australian Government, March 15, 2004.
Ah Kit, J., C. Prideaux, P. W. Harvey, J. Collins, M. W. Battersby and P. D. Mills (2003). "Chronic disease self-management in Aboriginal communities: Towards a sustainable” Journal of Primary Health 9(2&3): 168-176.
Battersby, M., A. Ask, M. Reece, M. Markwick and J. Collins (2003). "The partners in health scale: The development and psychometric properties of a generic assessment scale for chronic condition self-management."