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• A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF THE BENEFITS OF SELF HELP ORGANISATIONS led by Fran Boyle
  
  This three-year study will critically evaluate the benefits of self-help organisations to people who suffer chronic diseases and examine ways to improve links between the groups and GPs.

  Chief investigator Dr Frances Boyle, of the University of Queensland, said the study had emerged from years of mainly anecdotal evidence that self-help organisations could aid patients and their carers dealing with the day-to-day realities of chronic disease.

  The researchers will conduct Australia 's first comprehensive survey of people who contact self-help organisations focused on chronic illness. They will also trial an education strategy with GPs designed to improve awareness of and access to such organisations.