IntroductionHealthcare professionals tried to adhere to a chronically ill patient's daily regimen for two weeks as an educational tool to increase their insight into patients' perspectives. MethodsParticipants responded to a baseline-, daily-and evaluating questionnaire. The primary outcome: on a scale from 0-10, how much insight do you have into the perspective of patients? Associations between baseline-and final data were established using paired T-tests. Results108 Participants were included and complete data were available for 68 cases (63%). The participants' self-reported insight into patients' perspectives significantly increased (from 3,92 to 5,30; MD 1,38; P<0,0001). Furthermore, participants had thought more often about what it was like for patients to live with a chronic disease (from 3,59 to 7,55; MD 3,96; P<0,0001), thought it was more strenuous to partake in research (from 6,79 to 7,39; MD 0,60; P=0,006), and found it more difficult to adhere to a patients' regimen than initially thought (from 7,50 to 5,85; MD -1,65; P<0,0001). ConclusionLearning through lived experience is an effective educational tool to improve healthcare professionals' insight into patients' perspectives. Further research should focus on repeating this experiment in a controlled setting, including different target populations (e.g., students and residents), and involving other healthcare organizations.

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