Drivers and barriers to promoting self-care in individuals living with multiple long-term health conditions: a cross-sectional online survey of health and care professionals

Self-care is important for service users who live with multimorbidity. H&SCPs identified loneliness, social isolation, mobility and access to services, and support in understanding or complying with a medical regimen as key obstacles to self-care for service users. Extant barriers identified by H&SCPs were associated with service users' ability and opportunity to sustain self-care, especially relating to feelings of loneliness and experiences of social isolation, mobility and access issues.