Evolution of Therapeutic Patient Education: A Systematic Scoping Review and Scientometric Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Therapeutic patient education (TPE) aims to empower the patients and their caregivers to effectively care for and manage their conditions. Such educational programs have been shown to improve health behaviors, disease outcomes, and quality of life among different patient populations. The field of TPE has evolved extensively over decades, owing to interdisciplinary research. No study so far has been done to map this field, to identify the stakeholders and gaps requiring future research. By leveraging the theory of co-citation, CiteSpace was used to visualize the bibliographic data pertaining to TPE research. A total of 54,533 articles published in English language were analyzed to identify influential funders, regions, and institutes contributing to this field. Besides these, significant th

SUBMITTER: Correia JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9140728 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature