Development of a novel, short, self-completed questionnaire on empowerment for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and an analysis of factors affecting patient empowerment

Conclusions:
The results suggest that the concise self-completed empowerment questionnaire developed here is useful for measuring the empowerment of individual patients and evaluating the impact of symptoms and therapies on empowerment.

Source: BioPsychiSocial Medicine - August 25, 2014 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Yoriko HaraSanae IwashitaAkira OkadaYuji TajiriHitomi NakayamaTomoko KatoMotoyuki NakaoKoji TsuboiRaoul BreugelmansYoko Ishihara Source Type: research