Table 4.

Final self‐management intervention taxonomy (domains 3 and 4)

Subdomain	Elements
Domain 3: Outcomes for measuring SMIs
3.1 Basic empowerment	Level of knowledge,‐ level of health literacy, level of skill acquisition, level of self‐efficacy and level of patient activation
3.2 Adherence to self‐management behaviours	Lifestyle‐related behaviours, clinical self‐management behaviours, psychological self‐management behaviours, social self‐management behaviours, interactions and communication with health‐care/social care providers
3.3 Clinical outcomes	Disease progression (clinical markers, symptoms), complications, adverse events and mortality
3.4 Patient/caregiver quality of life	Overall quality of life, physical functioning, psychological and emotional functioning, social functioning, sexual functioning and burden of treatment
3.5 Care perceptions/satisfaction	Overall satisfaction with self‐management interventions, perceptions of being well and sufficiently informed (quality of information provision), perceptions of patient‐provider relationship and personalized care
3.6 Health‐care use	Type and number of visits, hospital admissions and readmissions and emergency care
3.7 Costs	Health‐care costs for patients, health‐care costs, direct non‐medical costs and societal costs
Domain 4: Target population
4.1 As defined by intervention recipient	Patients, informal caregivers or family caregivers
4.2 As defined by disease‐related characteristics	Time since diagnosis, disease severity, comorbidity and multimorbidity
4.3 As defined by socioeconomic/ demographic characteristics	Socioeconomic status, cultural group, health literacy, digital literacy, biological sex or gender, age and living situation