It can work as a stand-alone tool, or as part of Personal Health Plan materials.
The Well-being Star is designed to either be self-completed by a patient, or ideally completed by a patient and health professional together.
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The Well-being Star was developed by Triangle in collaboration with North East Essex PCT and with funding from the Department of Health.
The Well-Being Star supports and measures progress in eight outcome areas that together enable people to live as well as they can with a long term health condition. These are:
- Lifestyle
- Looking after yourself
- Managing symptoms
- Work, volunteering and other activities
- Money
- Where you live
- Family and friends
- Feeling positive
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The Wellbeing star data can be used as a successful measure of the level of patient engagement in their healthcare as well as their confidence, knowledge and skill at managing it independently.
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Using reference to the ‘Journey of change’ it is possible to plot on the wellbeing star where along the 5 points of the journey the patient is across 8 elements of their health and wellbeing.
Data can then be compared internally and externally across a number of client groups or organisations to determine our patient activation rates.
For further information www.outcomesstar.org.uk