Watanabe, Hirohito
Anezaki, Hisataka
Kazawa, Kana
Tamaki, Yuya
Hashimoto, Hideki
Moriyama, Michiko
Article History
Received: 11 December 2021
Accepted: 4 May 2022
First Online: 20 May 2022
Declarations
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: The insurance authority of Kure City provided the anonymous data, and the study was conducted on an opt-out basis. Informed written consent has been obtained from the program participants after full explanation of the purpose and nature of all procedures used. Approval for the study was obtained from the Ethics Committee of Hiroshima University (C-203—C203-7, E-2653). All methods were carried out in accordance with the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration (1964).
: Not applicable.
: The self-management program evaluated in the current study was provided by DPP Health Partners, Co. Ltd. under the contraction with Kure City authority, invested by Data Horizon, Co. Ltd., RCC Broadcasting, Co. Ltd., and MM when started. The original version of the program was developed by KK and MM as a part of thesis research of KK. The program was afterward adopted and modified by DPP Health Partners, Co. Ltd. MM was a non-corporate executive officer for the company between December 2010 and October 2018, supporting the in-house training for staff nurses unrelated to the self-management implementation, with stock share that was declared and approved by Hiroshima University authority for conflict-of-interests management. Since November 2018, MM abandoned the stock share, and has no conflict of interests with the company. The anonymized data used in the current study was provided by Kure City National Health Insurance authority for independent evaluation of the program effectiveness. Otherwise, authors have no conflict of interests to be declared.