A qualitative evaluation of the online version of the EPP allowed us access to the online content of discussion centres where facilitators (the term for online course leaders, community leaders are called tutors) and participants were able to post questions, comments and solutions related to self-management of long-term conditions.
Second, there was variability between facilitators in terms of their ability to encourage interaction and discussion between participants.
As for religion it was found that it acts as a facilitator in terms of motivating women to take charge of their own health [ 47] and as a barrier when breast cancer is passively accepted as a test from God [ 35, 48].
She often referred to the term facilitator, suggesting that she saw facilitating as providing an experience for the student to learn.
Facilitating learning is a characteristic of reformed instruction (Luft and Roehrig, 2007), however, when instructors were probed to elaborate on what they meant by the term "facilitator", stark contrasts with that definition were often revealed.
During this discussion, the facilitator introduced the term "factors associated with maintenance and decline" to the participants once they started to talk about the "reasons" of maintenance and decline.
Thus, collaboration includes working around barriers and using facilitators for long-term establishment of collaborative practice.
We confirmed several facilitators to long-term controller medication for asthma described in previous literature, such as having a written action plan and patients' knowledge related to the medication and the disease [ 19, 21].
This closeness was often explained in terms of facilitators' age, approachability, informal style and similar background.
CHCs are composed of voluntary members, termed FP facilitators, who are selected at the grassroots level.
