Doctors and Web-based Self-management Support Pilot Study.

The standard of care is that health professionals receive their usual education on self-management, which ranges from minimal to modest, depending on the training site. They will be identified and invited to attend by the program director and/or clinic managers.

Health professional participants will attend 60-90 minutes teaching sessions with other health professionals, either in person or via Web-Ex, once per week for a total of 4 weeks. The program director and/or clinic managers overseeing these health professionals will make room for these sessions in their clinic schedule, so that you have no clinical or other responsibilities during those times.

During the first session, the Principal Investigator will first read the informed consent/fact sheet to the health professionals and ask for any questions. A copy of the informed consent/fact sheet will be given to each health professional participant, and they will be asked to provide their contact information on a sign up sheet. At that point, they will complete their first survey questionnaire.

Between these group sessions, at the convenience of the participant, the health professional will log-on to the online workshop to observe the patients' progress in the online course. The health professional will be expected to log on 3 times per week for approximately 10 minutes at a time. The health professional will have 2 'homework' assignments during the entire 4 weeks of learning sessions. These consist of thinking critically about how the self-management techniques they observe patients using online might apply to other patients the health professionals observe, whether online or in their clinics.

The health professionals will also be asked to complete voluntary pre- and post-course surveys. There will be time set aside during the first and last learning sessions for them to complete the surveys.