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- Acuña Mora, Mariela, et al.
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Definitions, instruments and correlates of patient empowerment : A descriptive review
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Ingår i: Patient Education and Counseling. - : Elsevier. - 0738-3991 .- 1873-5134.
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objective: This review aimed to: (i) inventory the definitions and measurements of patient empowerment in healthcare literature; (ii) appraise the conceptual and methodological rigor of included studies; and (iii) identify correlates of patient empowerment in persons with chronic conditions.Methods: Four databases were searched to identify articles measuring patient empowerment in persons with chronic conditions, used a quantitative design and provided evidence on correlates of patient empowerment. Seventy-six articles were included and analyzed by descriptive statistics and summative content analysis.Results: The articles used a range of definitions (n = 35) and instruments (n = 38), evaluating a range of correlates in four categories: sociodemographic characteristics, clinical outcomes, patient-reported outcomes and patient-reported experiences. The most frequent associations were between patient empowerment and age (n = 21), sex (n = 15), educational level (n = 15) and quality of life (n = 18). However, they were not always significant.Conclusion: The broad variation of definitions and instruments highlights the lack of consensus on how to interpret and measure patient empowerment. Although several covariates have been evaluated, there are few studies assess the same relationships.Practice implications: Consensus on a definition and measurement of patient empowerment is needed to improve the quality of future research and to provide a more cohesive body of knowledge.
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- Acuña Mora, Mariela, 1990, et al.
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Empowering young persons during the transition to adulthood
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Ingår i: Transition from Pediatric to Adult Healthcare Services for Young Adults with Long-Term Conditions: An International Perspective on Nurses Roles and Interventions. - Cham : Springer International Publishing. - 9783030233839 ; , s. 19-46
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- Acuña Mora, Mariela, 1990, et al.
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Empowering young persons with congenital heart disease: Using intervention mapping to develop a transition program - the STEPSTONES project.
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Ingår i: Journal of pediatric nursing. - : Elsevier BV. - 1532-8449 .- 0882-5963. ; 50, s. e8-e17
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Describe the implementation of intervention mapping in the development of a transition program that aims to empower adolescents with congenital heart disease.To gain a better understanding of the problem, we conducted a literature review, focus group and individual interviews, and a cross-sectional survey. This information helped us decide on the scope of the intervention, relevant theories, determinants, formulate performance and change objectives and identify adequate evidence-based change methods. Once the transition program had been designed, effectiveness and process evaluation studies were planned.Young persons with congenital heart disease have insufficient disease-related knowledge, self-management skills and high parental involvement. The transition program involves three meetings with a trained transition coordinator over a two-and-a-half-year period and targets young persons with congenital heart disease and their parents. The transition coordinators use change techniques such as goal-setting, modeling and active learning in order to target three personal determinants (knowledge, self-efficacy and self-management).The use of intervention mapping may lead to designing interventions tailored to the needs of the targeted population. The transition program described in this paper is currently being evaluated in a hybrid experimental design with simultaneous undertaking of the process evaluation.This transition program can lead to the empowerment of young persons with congenital heart disease and help them in the process of becoming more responsible for their care. If proven effective, it can be implemented for other chronic conditions.
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- Acuña Mora, Mariela, 1990, et al.
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Gothenburg Empowerment Scale (GES): psychometric properties and measurement invariance in adults with congenital heart disease from Belgium, Norway and South Korea
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Ingår i: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1477-7525. ; 20:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background Patient empowerment is associated with improvements in different patient-reported and clinical outcomes. However, despite being widely researched, high quality and theoretically substantiated disease-generic measures of patient empowerment are lacking. The few good instruments that are available have not reported important psychometric properties, including measurement invariance. The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the 15-item Gothenburg Empowerment Scale (GES), with a particular focus on measurement invariance of the GES across individuals from three countries. Methods Adults with congenital heart disease from Belgium, Norway and South Korea completed the GES and other patient-reported outcomes as part of an international, cross-sectional, descriptive study called APPROACH-IS II. The scale's content (missing data) and factorial validity (confirmatory factor analyses), measurement invariance (multi-group confirmatory factor analyses), responsiveness (floor and ceiling effects) and reliability (internal consistency) were assessed. Results Content validity, responsiveness and reliability were confirmed. Nonetheless, metric but not scalar measurement invariance was supported when including the three countries, possibly because the scale performed differently in the sample from South Korea. A second set of analyses supported partial scalar invariance for a sample that was limited to Norway and Belgium. Conclusion Our study offers preliminary evidence that GES is a valid and reliable measure of patient empowerment in adults with congenital heart disease. However, cross-country comparisons must be made with caution, given the scale did not perform equivalently across the three countries.
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- Acuña Mora, Mariela, 1990, et al.
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Hybrid experimental design: A suitable design to tackle contamination of control groups
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Ingår i: Nordic Conference in Nursing Research: Methods and Networks for the Future, June 15-17, Stockholm.
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- Background: Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are considered to be the “gold standard” to assess the effectiveness of interventions. Because nursing interventions are most likely complex, multicomponent interventions, RCTs are often not suitable due to the risk of contamination of the control group. Such contamination can lead to a lower point estimate of the intervention’s effect and to underestimate the difference between both groups. Objective: To describe an innovative study design aiming to verify the contamination in the control group when testing the effectiveness of a person-centered transition program for adolescents with congenital heart disease (ConHD). Design: A hybrid experimental design is developed, in which a longitudinal, observational study is embedded in a RCT, resulting in a 3-arms design. The study will be conducted in 4 ConHD-centers in Sweden. Two centers will perform the RCT, by randomly assigning patients to either the experimental group (60 patients) or the comparison group (60 patients). This latter group may be subject of contamination. Two other centers are “intervention-naïve” and therefore comprise a contamination-free control group (120 patients). The occurrence of contamination will be investigated by comparing the comparison group and control group. Participants and setting: Participants are literate, Swedish-speaking adolescents with ConHD, aged 16 years and their parents. Discussion: This hybrid experimental design will give us the opportunity to investigate potential contamination of the comparison group, by studying differences with the control group from intervention-naïve centers. If this design is successful, it can be employed in the evaluation of complex nursing interventions.
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