My Symptoms: an eHealth and GP Assisted Programme for Persistent Symptoms in Primary Care

The project aims to evaluate the uptake and effects of the new self-help programme for PPS, the My Symptoms programme, prescribed and followed up by GPs. Specific objectives are to: 1. Describe the use of the programme during routine care. This includes 1. Determination of the number of patients per GP who access the programme after prescription from their GPs (adoption) 2. A description of how often the follow-up consultation is completed according to the patients. 2. Explore patient characteristics (appropriateness) 3. Describe patients' engagement with the programme with regard to time and frequency of access to modules and tools (fidelity) 4. Evaluate effects on patients' health, quality of life, functioning and satisfaction with care 5. Estimate effects on patients' use of health care services 6. Estimate effects on patients' work productivity 7. Estimate possible effects on health care costs provided the intervention is fully disseminated nationally.