TY - JOUR AU - Kennedy, Anne AU - Rogers, Anne AU - Sanders, Caroline AU - Gately, Claire AU - Lee, Victoria PY - 2009 DA - 2009/06/08 TI - Creating 'good' self-managers?: Facilitating and governing an online self care skills training course JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 93 VL - 9 IS - 1 AB - In chronic disease management, patients are increasingly called upon to undertake a new role as lay tutors within self-management training programmes. The internet constitutes an increasingly significant healthcare setting and a key arena for self-management support and communication. This study evaluates how a new quasi-professional health workforce – volunteer tutors – engage, guide and attempt to manage people with long-term conditions in the ways of 'good' self-management within the context of an online self-management course. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-9-93 DO - 10.1186/1472-6963-9-93 ID - Kennedy2009 ER -