Components of the intensive management intervention | Themes |
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1. Monthly Appointments | Monthly appointments acceptable |
Access to services/consultant | |
Monthly appointments beneficial | |
Intensive management preferable to standard care | |
2. The Therapeutic Relationship | Practitioners ‘fairly’ confident using motivational interviewing techniques |
Patients and practitioners work on goals together | |
Importance of continuity of care | |
Provision of helpful information | |
3. Increased Medication | Improvement in RA symptoms |
Side-effects of medication | |
Treatment algorithm easy for practitioners to use | |
4. Patient Handbook | Views on the content of the Handbook |
Introductory use of Handbook | |
5. Shared Treatment Plan | Views on the shared treatment planning |