Improving healthcare empowerment through breast cancer patient navigation: a mixed methods evaluation in a safety-net setting. [PDF]
, 2014 BackgroundBreast cancer mortality rates in the U.S. remain relatively high, particularly among ethnic minorities and low-income populations. Unequal access to quality care, lower follow up rates, and poor treatment adherence contribute to rising ...
Burke, Nancy J, Gabitova, Guzyal
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Information-theoretic measures as a generic approach to human-robot interaction : Application in CORBYS project [PDF]
, 2014 Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full ...
Glackin, Cornelius +4 more
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Social Media and Social Support: A Framework for Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
Informatics, 2022 Social media has been a powerful source of social support for health consumers. In the healthcare sector, social media has thrived, building on various dynamic platforms supporting the connection between social relationships, health, and wellbeing. While
Md Irfanuzzaman Khan +3 more
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Nurses’ Experiences Empowering Hospitalized Patients [PDF]
, 2017 Four focus groups were conducted to explore acute care nurses’ experiences empowering patients and the facilitators and barriers they encountered during the process.
Bull, Margaret J., Jerofke-Owen, Teresa
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Patient empowerment: a systematic review of questionnaires measuring empowerment in cancer patients [PDF]
Acta Oncologica, 2017 There is an increased attention to and demand for patient empowerment in cancer treatment and follow-up programs. Patient empowerment has been defined as feeling in control of or having mastery in relation to cancer and cancer care. This calls for properly developed questionnaires assessing empowerment from the user perspective.
Eskildsen, Nanna Bjerg +6 more
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Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2021 BackgroundChronic diseases often present severe consequences for those affected. The management and treatment of chronic diseases largely depend on patients’ lifestyle choices and how they cope with the disease in their everyday lives.
Kathrine Stampe +2 more
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Nudging and obesity : how to get rid of paternalism? [PDF]
, 2012 This paper reflects upon the conditions how ‘nudging’ can change individual health choices without being paternalistic and therefore can be defined as an instrument of social justice?
Devisch, Ignaas
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Tailored retrieval of health information from the web for facilitating communication and empowerment of elderly people [PDF]
, 2020 A patient, nowadays, acquires health information from the Web mainly through a “human-to-machine” communication process with a generic search engine. This, in turn, affects, positively or negatively, his/her empowerment level and the “human-to-human ...
Alfano, Marco +3 more
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Health literacy and patient empowerment: separating con-joined twins in the context of chronic low back pain. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 OBJECTIVES:While health literacy has been widely considered key to patient empowerment, an alternative approach separates both concepts and distinguishes between different types of patients according to their levels of health literacy and empowerment ...
Anne-Linda Camerini, Peter J Schulz
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How to empower patients, and involve the public [PDF]
, 2014 Patient empowerment and patient and public involvement are a focus for NHS policy, with an emphasis on patient decision making and representation as core features of a patient-focused NHS.
Piper, Stewart
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