Patient empowerment in risk management: a mixed-method study to explore mental health professionals' perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the last years, patients' empowerment has been increasingly recognized as a crucial dimension of patient-centered healthcare and patient safety. Nevertheless, little work has been done so far in the field of patient safety to investigate strategies for empowering psychiatric patients. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify, by using focus groups, whether and how psychiatric patients' empowerment can improve risk management according to the perspective of healthcare providers (HPs).

Methods

A mixed-method approach composed of a qualitative data collection method (i.e., focus groups) and a quantitative analysis technique (i.e., inductive content analysis) was applied. HPs working in mental health settings shared their perspectives on psychiatric patient

SUBMITTER: Rimondini M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6567542 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature