Table 2.

Categories and subcategories

Categories	Subcategories
Individualized support and patient-professional relationships	Individualized care considers the patient’s agenda and self-management ability
	Trustful relationships enable self-management support
	Support for self-management is more than information
Professionals as knowledge translators to help patients learn self-management skills	Knowledge affects self-management abilities and decreases anxiety
	Pedagogical strengths and weaknesses among health care professionals
	Self-monitoring enables self-management
Managing multimorbidity and coordinating care in a system focused on single diseases	PHC’s role in coordinating care in a fragmented system
	Accessibility to health care and time for patients with multimorbidity enhances self-management support
Shifting roles and differing views of responsibility for self-management	When PHC professionals are in control, it increases adherence and patient safety and reduces anxiety
	Empowering patients enables a shift in responsibility

Abbreviation: PHC primary health care