Empowerment in primary care and psychiatric settings

A psychometric evaluation of the Swedish version of the empowerment scale

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15698782
AutoresLinnea Nissling (0000-0001-6479-2973, Primary Health Care, autor de correspondencia), Magnus Lindwall (0000-0002-2066-6235, Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences), Viktor Kaldo (0000-0002-6443-5279, Linnaeus University), Pernilla Larsman (0000-0002-2654-7042, University of Gothenburg), Lars Hansson (0000-0003-1127-6697), Sandra Frööjd (Karolinska Institutet), Marie Bendix (0000-0001-8901-166X, Karolinska Institutet), Sandra Weineland (0000-0003-2428-4004, Region Västra Götaland)
Año2025
Volumen13
Número1
Páginas909-909
Fecha de publicación2025-08-13
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBMC Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2050-7283 • E-ISSN: 2050-7283
EditorialBioMed Central (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1186/s40359-025-03123-y
PMID40804430
OpenAlexW4413115461
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas30

The results reinforce the difficulties in measuring empowerment given the complexity of this concept. The improved and shortened adaptation of the scale could potentially be used within health care settings to measure empowerment, but further research is needed to conceptualize and measure empowerment in patients with mental health problems. Given scarce support for the scale's unidimensionallity, future research should explore using multiple instruments targeting different constructs to measure patient empowerment more comprehensively

Empowerment · Family medicine · Primary care · Psychiatry · Psychometrics · Scale (ratio · Applied Psychology · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Community Health and Development · Health Policy Implementation Science · Medicine · Psychology