• Una Stenberg, Mette Haaland-Øverby, Kari Fredriksen, Karl Fredrik Westermann, and Toril Kvisvik.
• Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Learning and Mastery in Health, Oslo University Hospital, Postboks 4959 Nydalen, 0424 Oslo, Norway; Center for Shared Decision Making and Collaborative Care Research, Oslo University Hospital, Postboks 4959 Nydalen, 0424 Oslo, Norway. Electronic address: una.stenberg@mestring.no.
• Patient Educ Couns. 2016 Nov 1; 99 (11): 1759-1771.

ObjectiveTo give a comprehensive overview of benefits and challenges from participating in group based patient education programs that are carried out by health care professionals and lay participants, aimed at promoting self-management for people living with chronic illness.MethodsWe searched 8 literature databases. Full text articles meeting the inclusion criteria were retrieved and reviewed. Arksey and O'Malley's framework for scoping studies guided the review process and thematic analysis was undertaken to synthesize extracted data.ResultsOf the 5935 titles identified, 47 articles were included in this review. The participants experienced the programs as beneficial according to less symptom distress and greater awareness of their own health, improved self-management strategies, peer support, learning and hope.ConclusionA substantial evidence base supports the conclusion that group based self-management patient education programs in different ways have been experienced as beneficial, but more research is needed.Practice ImplicationsThe insights gained from this review can enable researchers, health care professionals, and participants to understand the complexity in evaluating self-management patient education programs, and constitute a basis for a more standardized and systematic evaluation. The results may also encourage health care professionals in planning and carrying out programs in cooperation with lay participants.Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

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