Living Well

The Living Well program has been used as a laboratory to examine various aspects of chronic disease management in a rural population.

• JMIR Formative Research – Enrollment and Completion Characteristics for Novel Remote Delivery Modes of the Self-management Programs During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploratory Analysis
• Evaluation of a Peer Led Chronic Pain Self-Management Program in a Rural Population (sagepub.com)
• Loneliness Among Rural Self-Management Education Program Enrollees During the COVID-19 Pandemic (sagepub.com)
• Implementation of Evidence-Based Disease Self-Management Programs in a Rural Region: Leveraging and Linking Community and Health Care System Assets – Kristin Pullyblank, Wendy Brunner, Lynae Wyckoff, Nicole Krupa, Melissa Scribani, David Strogatz, 2022 (sagepub.com)
• Evaluating the Implementation of the Diabetes Self-Management Program in a Rural Population | Diabetes Spectrum | American Diabetes Association (diabetesjournals.org)

Additional studies that were developed and used the Living Well program include

• Living Well with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Asthma
  Prescribing Patterns for Long-Acting Inhaled Bronchodilators Among Rural Adults With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease | Brunner | Journal of Clinical Medicine Research (jocmr.org)
• Patient Perspectives on Changing Behavior to Improve Diabetes Self-Management
  Wrangling Diabetes: Illuminating the Latent Processes That Impact Diabetes Self-Management Behaviors – Kristin Pullyblank, Amanda Fink, 2023 (sagepub.com)-The Impact of the National Diabetes Prevention Program in Two Rural Communities
• Understanding national diabetes prevention program participant perspectives on factors affecting behavior change (confex.com)