Assessment of patient empowerment--a systematic review of measures.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient empowerment has gained considerable importance but uncertainty remains about the best way to define and measure it. The validity of empirical findings depends on the quality of measures used. This systematic review aims to provide an overview of studies assessing psychometric properties of questionnaires purporting to capture patient empowerment, evaluate the methodological quality of these studies and assess the psychometric properties of measures identified.

Methods

Electronic searches in five databases were combined with reference tracking of included articles. Peer-reviewed articles reporting psychometric testing of empowerment measures for adult patients in French, German, English, Portuguese and Spanish were included. Study characteristics, construct

SUBMITTER: Barr PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4430483 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature