7.1 Individual care needs

Main inclusion criteria

Studies of patients and service user care needs including:

quality of life, management of acute and chronic symptoms, management of side effects, rehabilitation, long term morbidity and reproductive issues
psychological impact of illness
social and economic consequences of ill health
behaviour affecting disease management including secondary prevention, compliance to treatment and attitudes and beliefs relating to seeking treatment
assessment of social care and health services needs
educational or communication interventions to promote self-care or improve health care by carers
impact on carers

Includes research into or promoting management of diseases or conditions by service users such as user education and communication research.

Excludes services users experiences of health services which should be coded as 8.1 Organisation and delivery of services.

Do not use to code for the quality of life component of a therapeutic trial – code for the therapeutic investigation only.

Full name of code	Short name	Unique ID
7.1 Individual care needs	7.1 Individual needs	HRCS_RA_7_1