Patient empowerment in long-term conditions: Development and preliminary testing of a new measure

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Small, Nicola ^a   Bower, Peter ^a   Chew Graham, Carolyn A ^b   Whalley, Diane ^c   Protheroe, Joanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c RTI HEALTH SOLUTIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Health outcomes; Long term conditions; Measurement; Patient empowerment; Patients' perspectives; Primary care; Psychometrics; Scale development; Semi structured interviews

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF CARE; SELF EFFICACY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879810039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-263     Document Type: Article

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