Opportunity or Burden? A Behavioral Framework for Patient Engagement.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Engaging patients as partners in their care is clinically appealing, yet challenging to implement, and we lack a measurement framework that is applicable to vulnerable populations. To address this gap, we conducted a qualitative study to refine a conceptual framework that reflects an individual's propensity to engage with care.

Objectives

Our objectives were to refine the framework's domains of engagement behavior; identify key behaviors within each domain that describe engagement with providers, health systems or settings; and illustrate examples for each behavior where higher self-efficacy describes an opportunity to enhance engagement, and lower self-efficacy describes difficulties with engagement that risk burden.

Research design and sample

We elicited

SUBMITTER: Kimerling R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10226549 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature