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Innovating and redesigning the healthcare model : the key role of physicians in enhancing patient treatment adherence through patient empowerment stimulation
| Resumo: | The future of healthcare is being rethought and new paradigms have emerged placing a heavy focus on patient-centricity. Today, a shift in the role on the doctor-patient relationship in the medical decision-making is taking place and strong benefits are expected. Healthcare quality is a social matter and the lack of treatment adherence is an ever-present reality with major consequences on individual’s health and on economies worldwide. Strongly rooted on the Self-Determination Theory, this study aims to identify the antecedents and outcomes of patient empowerment. Therefore, data was collected by means of an online survey and 164 responses were gathered. The obtained results revealed that physician’s ability to support patient’s autonomy and relatedness needs is fundamental to motivate patients caring for themselves, and, together with the physician, co-create value. Interaction is thus critical and physicians need to be supportive in order to increase the capacity of patients to become more active, able to make decisions about their health and enhance treatment adherence levels. Furthermore, this research also contributes to the existent literature on patient empowerment once new variables are explored and bases for future research are provided. |
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| Autores principais: | Lourenço, Maria Inês Rodrigues de Frias Negrão |
| Assunto: | Patient empowerment Treatment adherence Physician support Healthcare |
| Ano: | 2016 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Veritati - Repositório Institucional da Universidade Católica Portuguesa |
| Resumo: | The future of healthcare is being rethought and new paradigms have emerged placing a heavy focus on patient-centricity. Today, a shift in the role on the doctor-patient relationship in the medical decision-making is taking place and strong benefits are expected. Healthcare quality is a social matter and the lack of treatment adherence is an ever-present reality with major consequences on individual’s health and on economies worldwide. Strongly rooted on the Self-Determination Theory, this study aims to identify the antecedents and outcomes of patient empowerment. Therefore, data was collected by means of an online survey and 164 responses were gathered. The obtained results revealed that physician’s ability to support patient’s autonomy and relatedness needs is fundamental to motivate patients caring for themselves, and, together with the physician, co-create value. Interaction is thus critical and physicians need to be supportive in order to increase the capacity of patients to become more active, able to make decisions about their health and enhance treatment adherence levels. Furthermore, this research also contributes to the existent literature on patient empowerment once new variables are explored and bases for future research are provided. |
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