Assessment of patient information needs: A systematic review of measures.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Providing patient information is a central aspect of patient-centered care. Fulfilling personal information needs has positive effects on several health-related outcomes. Measurement instruments help to identify individual information needs in an effective way. The present study gives an overview of existing information needs measures and further evaluates the quality of their psychometric properties and their psychometric studies. METHODS:We conducted a systematic search on psychometric studies of measures that assess information needs in PubMed and Embase. Furthermore, we carried out a secondary search with reference and citation tracking of the included articles. Title, abstracts and full texts were screened by two independent reviewers for eligibility. We extracted data on c

SUBMITTER: Christalle E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6354974 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature