ArticleJournal of primary care & community health2017
Patient Enablement After a Single Appointment With a GP: Analysis of Finnish QUALICOPC Data.
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- Level of asthma control and its determinants among adults living with asthma attending selected public hospitals in northwestern, Ethiopia: using an ordinal logistic regression model.Asthma research and practice · 2022Article
- Enablement and empowerment among patients participating in a supported osteoarthritis self-management programme - a prospective observational study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2022Observational
- Good communication was valued as more important than accessibility according to 707 Nordic primary care patients: a report from the QUALICOPC study.Scandinavian journal of primary health care · 2021Article
- Expectations, values, preferences and experiences of Hungarian primary care population when accessing services: Evaluation of the patient's questionnaires of the international QUALICOPC study.Primary health care research & development · 2021Article
- Patient enablement after a consultation with a general practitioner-Explaining variation between countries, practices and patients.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2020Article
- The validity and reliability of the patient enablement instrument (PEI) after GP appointments in Finnish health care centres.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2020Article
- Examining the Moderating Role of Patient Enablement on the Relationship Between Health Anxiety and Psychosomatic Distress: A Cross-Sectional Study at a Traditional Chinese Medicine Outpatient Clinic in Hong Kong.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Patient involvement in assessing consultation quality: validation of patient enablement instrument (PEI) in Lithuanian general practice.BMC family practice · 2019Article
- Comparison of the Patient Enablement Instrument (PEI) with two single-item measures among Finnish Health care centre patients.BMC health services research · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundPatient enablement is described as patient's ability to understand and cope with illness after a consultation. The purpose of this study was to analyze factors associated with enablement in Finnish primary health care. An additional aim was to evaluate whether a single question could be used to measure enablement.
methodsA questionnaire survey was addressed to Finnish general practitioners (GPs) within the Quality and Costs of Primary Care in Europe (QUALICOPC) study framework. A trained fieldworker contacted nine patients for every participating GP. Two to 9 patients per GP (median 9 patients) completed the questionnaire. Patient enablement was measured by a single question based on the Patient Enablement Instrument questionnaire. Multivariate and multilevel analyses were performed to find variables that have an independent association with patient enablement.
resultsA total of 1196 patients completed the QUALICOPC questionnaire. A total of 898 patients (75.1%) agreed that they felt better able to cope with their health problem or illness after an appointment with a GP, reflecting patient enablement. In the theme group analyses, 11 factors were found to have a statistically significant ( P < .05) association with enablement. In the final multivariable model, positive perceptions of doctor-patient communication and patient satisfaction were positively associated with enablement.
conclusionsThe results, using a single question to measure enablement, are comparable to previous findings on factors associated with enablement. Further research is needed and these results should be regarded as preliminary.
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