RUO Home

Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Oviedo

View Item 
  •   RUO Home
  • Producción Bibliográfica de UniOvi: RECOPILA
  • Artículos
  • View Item
  •   RUO Home
  • Producción Bibliográfica de UniOvi: RECOPILA
  • Artículos
  • View Item
    • español
    • English
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

Browse

All of RUOCommunities and CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsxmlui.ArtifactBrowser.Navigation.browse_issnAuthor profilesThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsxmlui.ArtifactBrowser.Navigation.browse_issn

My Account

LoginRegister

Statistics

View Usage Statistics

RECENTLY ADDED

Last submissions
Repository
How to publish
Resources
FAQs

Empower Me? Yes, Please, But in My Way: Different Patterns of Experiencing Empowerment in Patients with Chronic Conditions

Author:
Suárez Vázquez, AnaUniovi authority; Río Lanza, Ana Belén delUniovi authority; Suárez Álvarez, LeticiaUniovi authority; Vázquez Casielles, RodolfoUniovi authority
Subject:

communication between health care professionals and patients

patient participation

empowering

model for detecting types of patients

Publication date:
2016-07-19
Editorial:

Taylor & Francis Online

Publisher version:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2016.1196409
Citación:
Health Communication,32(7), p. 1-6 (2016); doi:10.1080/10410236.2016.1196409
Descripción física:
p. 1-6
Abstract:

Empowerment is a widely used word within the realm of health care. This is especially true in the case of patients living with a chronic illness, who may be active participants and learn to manage their disease, irrespective of their desires or preferences. This article focuses on the empowering experience of patients with chronic conditions. We have built on earlier research that explains the factors that mediate communication between health care professionals and patients: patient participation, patient impact, meaning, health care professionals’ information provision, health care professionals’ emotional support, health care professionals’ attentive listening, health care professionals’ trust, and patient collaboration. We propose a new model for detecting types of patients who differ in the way they live their empowering experience. Using survey data from a sample of 181 patients of hemophilia, we found two types of patients: patients with an inner locus of empowerment and patients with an outer locus of empowerment. We conclude by discussing different strategies for fostering the sense of power in each of these types of patients. The importance of empowerment in the health care field reflects a change in the model of caregivers and patients’ communication toward higher doses of mutual collaboration. This move can be justified in terms of ethical considerations, cost controlling, health outcomes, and nonhealth outcomes. Empowerment can be a conceptually complex idea, with different meanings depending on the people and depending on the context. Empowerment meets narrative: Listening to stories and creating settings. In a general sense, empowerment can be defined “as the process by which people gain mastery over their affairs”. In health care delivery, according to Funnell et al. “patients are empowered when they have knowledge, skills, attitudes and self-awareness necessary to influence their own behavior and that of others in order to improve the quality of their lives.” Asimakopoulou, Gilbert, Newton, and Scambler argued that focusing on the patient is the necessary condition for empowerment: “the foundation upon which ‘well informed, active partners in their own care’ are built” (p. 282). This notion of patients as informed and active participants is particularly relevant in the area of chronic illnesses. Patients with a chronic illness must be involved in their own care. Empowerment is an omnipresent facet of the way that patients live their illness. Previous literature has analyzed different aspects of patient empowerment; however, little is known about the empowerment experience per se. To fill this gap, in this article, we analyze the empowerment experience of patients with chronic illnesses.

Empowerment is a widely used word within the realm of health care. This is especially true in the case of patients living with a chronic illness, who may be active participants and learn to manage their disease, irrespective of their desires or preferences. This article focuses on the empowering experience of patients with chronic conditions. We have built on earlier research that explains the factors that mediate communication between health care professionals and patients: patient participation, patient impact, meaning, health care professionals’ information provision, health care professionals’ emotional support, health care professionals’ attentive listening, health care professionals’ trust, and patient collaboration. We propose a new model for detecting types of patients who differ in the way they live their empowering experience. Using survey data from a sample of 181 patients of hemophilia, we found two types of patients: patients with an inner locus of empowerment and patients with an outer locus of empowerment. We conclude by discussing different strategies for fostering the sense of power in each of these types of patients. The importance of empowerment in the health care field reflects a change in the model of caregivers and patients’ communication toward higher doses of mutual collaboration. This move can be justified in terms of ethical considerations, cost controlling, health outcomes, and nonhealth outcomes. Empowerment can be a conceptually complex idea, with different meanings depending on the people and depending on the context. Empowerment meets narrative: Listening to stories and creating settings. In a general sense, empowerment can be defined “as the process by which people gain mastery over their affairs”. In health care delivery, according to Funnell et al. “patients are empowered when they have knowledge, skills, attitudes and self-awareness necessary to influence their own behavior and that of others in order to improve the quality of their lives.” Asimakopoulou, Gilbert, Newton, and Scambler argued that focusing on the patient is the necessary condition for empowerment: “the foundation upon which ‘well informed, active partners in their own care’ are built” (p. 282). This notion of patients as informed and active participants is particularly relevant in the area of chronic illnesses. Patients with a chronic illness must be involved in their own care. Empowerment is an omnipresent facet of the way that patients live their illness. Previous literature has analyzed different aspects of patient empowerment; however, little is known about the empowerment experience per se. To fill this gap, in this article, we analyze the empowerment experience of patients with chronic illnesses.

URI:
http://hdl.handle.net/10651/39422
DOI:
10.1080/10410236.2016.1196409
Patrocinado por

This work was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the 2011–2015 Call for R&D projects (ECO2012-31300)

Id. Proyecto

(ECO2012-31300)

Collections
  • Artículos [27036]
Files in this item
Compartir
Exportar a Mendeley
Estadísticas de uso
Estadísticas de uso
Metadata
Show full item record
Página principal Uniovi

Biblioteca

Contacto

Facebook Universidad de OviedoTwitter Universidad de Oviedo
The content of the Repository, unless otherwise specified, is protected with a Creative Commons license: Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 Internacional
Creative Commons Image