Patients’ access to their medical records in the form of Personal Health Records (PHRs) is a central part of the ongoing shift in health policy, where patient empowerment is in focus. A survey was conducted to gauge the stakeholder requirements of patients in regards to functionality requests in PHRs. Models from goal-oriented requirements engineering were created to express the values and pref...

INTRODUCTION According to the health-promoting approach, people should be empowered such that they take responsibility for their health and follow a healthy lifestyle. Empowerment is a process in which people confront problems and tasks in their lives in order to better control them. This study was conducted to specify the relationship between individual empowerment and health-promoting lifesty...

BACKGROUND Due to the increasing number of women suffering from breast cancer worldwide, promoting the empowerment of these patients is an important factor affecting their survival. OBJECTIVES Few studies have investigated the empowerment needs of the breast cancer women, especially in Iran. Therefore, this study was performed to explain the empowerment needs of women with breast cancer in Ir...

A longitudinal predictive design was used to test a model linking changes in structural and psychological empowerment to changes in job satisfaction. Structural equation modeling analyses revealed a good fit of the data from 185 randomly selected staff nurses to the hypothesized model. Changes in perceived structural empowerment had direct effects on changes in psychological empowerment and job...

The literature reveals that participative leadership style (PLS) is overwhelmingly advantageous over the contrasting directive (DLS). Therefore, key objective of this study was to find out relative effect a PL as compared DL on motivational mechanism (organizational commitment and empowerment) effectiveness (innovation in-role performance) school staff teams. However, mediating role in relation...

This research primarily aims to highlight the interconnections among social activists, media, and ordinary public in actor-network encompassing women empowerment Malaysia. The secondary aim is expand knowledge gap on active activists’ perspective toward development of country’s empowerment. Qualitative interview was used create a holistic interviewee’s personal involvement following themes were...

BACKGROUND Women's empowerment is often used to explain changes in reproductive behavior, but no consideration is given to how reproductive events can shape women's empowerment over time. Fertility may cause changes in women's empowerment, or they may be mutually influencing. Research on women's empowerment and fertility relies on cross-sectional data from South Asia, which limits the understan...