Table 2 The integrative MS program theory
Intervention | Mechanisms | Contexts | Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
The combined interventions are characterised by: | The combined interventions aim fundamentally at: | Contextual factors are seen as important in prohibiting or enhancing the generation of positive treatment results: | Positive treatment results for PwMs are defined as: |
- individual diagnostics and treatment efforts | - strengthening the patient’s resources and competences on a physical, an emotional and a cognitive level | - social, cultural, economical and political relations | -clinical effects, independent of the patient’s feedback |
- involvement of the patient’s goals (and possible modifications of these during the course of treatment) | And thereby | - other treatments used | -experienced outcomes, dependent of the patient’s feedback |
- coordination of the interventions involved | - initiate and maintain health- promoting processes | - practitioner-settings | Outcomes are obtained through a dynamic process and can therefore not be reduced to the attainment of pre-defined treatment goals |
- the patient’s own effort | |||
- the patient’s motivation |